Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And only two — Joshua and Caleb — were to enjoy the promised land . |
| 2 | More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide . |
| 3 | Diocletian ( reigned 284–305 ) was one of five sons of Illyrian peasants who were to wear the imperial purple . |
| 4 | The objectives were to hit the main source of supplies to the Vietcong and to undermine the morale of the North Vietnamese people . |
| 5 | Although an earlier check with the weather office predicted a favourable wind for that evening , it did not materialize and conditions were to remain the same the following day when only one Spitfire was delivered by F/C Heering who had flown direct from Brize Norton . |
| 6 | One wonders if our worthy Bishop Russel were to see the sporting activities taking place today especially in the Holy weeks and time spent in the worship of television what punishments he would hand out . |
| 7 | If one were to peruse the extensive range of surveys of the applications of the rational expectations hypothesis to macroeconomics , one would come across a different framework of analysis , one which is so widely accepted that it is rarely explained in any detail , still less is its theoretical basis probed critically or its conclusions called into question . |
| 8 | Even in eastern Europe the active anti-semitic campaigns , which were to stimulate the mass emigration of the Jews , still lay in the future . |
| 9 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 10 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 11 | They found that the effects on sleep were to increase the total amount of REM sleep and Stage 2 sleep . |
| 12 | Campaigns to involve the Liberal Party in an electoral agreement with the Labour and Communist Parties were less significant , though they were to provide the ultimate form of the " People 's Front " . |
| 13 | Should they fail to see a green or red flare fired from Larsen 's Very pistol within ten minutes , they were to launch the main assault and force their way in . |
| 14 | ‘ It is n't very high on my list of priorities but I guess I 'd change my mind soon enough if I were to meet the right person . ’ |
| 15 | If Canada were to meet the logistical and commercial demands of the organisers , ought they not to be seriously considered ? |
| 16 | Note that we have included in this sample some records that would not pass our standard criteria if our purpose were to establish the exact form of the mean absorbance spectrum . |
| 17 | Some of Wordsworth 's most radical contributions to the Lyrical Ballads were to explore the tragic experience of country people , and John Walford 's story was itself used by Wordsworth as the subject of a substantial poem . |
| 18 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 19 | As he spoke , I asked myself whether the next 100 years of British history were to reflect the barren nature of his personality : the answer must be never , never , never . |
| 20 | In the first row Joseph spotted Tran Van Hieu 's father standing just behind the two red-robed royal princes who were to lead the annual act of homage . |
| 21 | They were to create the Indian diasporas of Guyana and Trinidad , of the Indian Ocean islands and the Pacific , and the smaller Chinese colonies in Cuba , Peru and the British Caribbean . |
| 22 | So long as the intended effect was achieved all means were justified : architecture , ornament , sculpture , painting , all the arts were to serve the optical illusion . |
| 23 | Money bills , those certified as such by the Speaker of the House of Commons , were to receive the Royal Assent one month after leaving the Commons , whether assented to by the House of Lords or not . |
| 24 | The three main county boroughs were to be retained and five counties were to replace the existing thirteen . |
| 25 | The unintended consequences of the diminished role of the MCC were to erode the very functions of Field Chairs which made the post worthwhile , to make them less informed by removing opportunity for MCC debate and replacing it with reports of MMRC , debates , and to reduce the contribution that fields could make to Modular Course development . |
| 26 | If we were to purchase the Sharp machine we would require to purchase at least one other lens , and probably two , which would require additional operator work and still not provide the flexibility of the zoom lens facility . |
| 27 | All morning , as we negotiated puddles in the wet clay soil , we were to hear the lovely sound . |
| 28 | By an unfortunate twist of fate , Sunderland were to experience the full might of the cousins playing in the same team . |
| 29 | By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days . |
| 30 | Later orators were to castigate the Athenian Assembly for making alliances with any state which offered itself , and it is hard to see what good Athens hoped for from Segesta in 457 . |