Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short order I was to fly with ‘ Deemy ’ on Friday morning and we were to cover the 4,300 miles from Fairbanks to Irkutsk via Yakutsk in one day — about the same flying distance as from New York to London . |
| 2 | The latest Microprocessor Report says the cancelled Motorola Inc 68050 , a minor upgrade of the 68040 , fell prey to a resource battle with two next-generation implementations that were to follow the 68050 : the LP040 , a low-cost , low-power re-implementation of the 68040 in 0.5 micron technology due to sample in late 1993 , and ‘ Q ’ , a fully static modular , superscalar , superpipelined part that borrows from the 88110 and will probably come out as the 68060 . |
| 3 | SMR 's final two Lancs , were to make the fifty minute flight to 15 Maintenance Unit at Wroughton , Wilts . |
| 4 | When he arrived his first task was to light the one and only office fire . |
| 5 | The main thrust of Green 's proposals was to modify the 1932 arrangements so that , as originally intended , a balanced committee would be established . |
| 6 | Dai 's initial role was to install the 3,000 lb boiler , with dyeing and washing machines , in the former railway shunting shed . |
| 7 | It was academic theory that was to define the two great periods of French station-building which produced in the Gare de l'Est and the Gare d'Orsay terminals which came to be regarded as definitive types . |
| 8 | Mr Newmarch 's next task was to tackle the 10,000 salesforce . |
| 9 | The idea was to combine the spin-2 particle called the graviton , which carries the gravitational force , with certain other new particles of spin 3/2 , 1 , 1/2 , and O. In a sense , all these particles could then be regarded as different aspects of the same " superparticle , " thus unifying the matter particles with spin 1/2 and 3/2 with the force-carrying particles of spin 0,1 and 2 . |
| 10 | Having assessed the responses to that paper , we concluded that the best way forward was to strengthen the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act to make it an offence to remove finds from scheduled sites whether or not they were discovered by means of a metal detector . |
| 11 | Before the season started , Ian McGeechan 's secret ambition was to win the two home games and possibly either one of the matches in Paris or London . |
| 12 | Cooper 's method was to give the three groups an inventory of questions dealing with obsessional traits and symptoms ; his results showed that the mean symptom score of the houseproud women fell between those of the normal women and the group of obsessional patients . |
| 13 | Off the shoreward side of the platform debris fell which was to form the two billion barrel Pozo Rica field . |
| 14 | In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path . |
| 15 | The British assignment was to disarm the 60 000 Japanese troops and liberate the 100 000 allied prisoners , many being women and children . |
| 16 | The third task was to get the five members of our group through a large spider web . |
| 17 | Her only task in the clean-up was to empty the two jam jars of snowdrops , but instead of disposing of the flowers she took them with her . |
| 18 | According to the plan , current repayments of US$40,000 billion would have to be cut to US$10,000 million if Latin America was to recover the 5-6 per cent annual economic growth rates of the 1970s . |
| 19 | The purpose of the workshop was to examine the 1989 Fair Employment Act and assess its capacity to counter the structural nature of discrimination in West Belfast . |
| 20 | The first was to make the six teachers more acceptable . |
| 21 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 22 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 23 | I was to travel the seventeen kilometres to Parma every day in a tram which was hauled by a steam engine . |
| 24 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |