Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 2 | The children were to remain where they were — wherever that was the parents were to remain in ignorance , with the children still isolated . |
| 3 | The privatization programme envisaged that 25 per cent of state enterprises would be sold by the end of 1992 ; about 25 categories of assets were to remain in state ownership , however , including natural resources and strategic enterprises . |
| 4 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 5 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 6 | Those orders were to remain in force until the next hearing on 31 January 1992 . |
| 7 | While the charters were being drawn up , the existing relations between landlords and serfs were to remain in place . |
| 8 | And so , if Edouard were to fall in love , to marry , he 'd be equally as obsessional then . |
| 9 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 10 | If only Harry were to fall in love with her they could have a wonderful life together . |
| 11 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 12 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 13 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 14 | These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom . |
| 15 | Some were to die in jail . |
| 16 | The change would take effect at the end of his present term ( 1965 ) or before then , if he were to die in office . |
| 17 | During that year a directive was issued by the Bishop of Carlisle to the vicar of Crosthwaite ; the 18 sworn men ; the churchwardens ; and a number of dignitaries , were to assemble in committee at Crosthwaite Church and elect 18 sidesmen , and new churchwardens for the ensuing year — these to take an appropriate oath office . |
| 18 | If they were to live in peace it was necessary , he said , that the Indians should have a country set apart for them and in that country they must stay . |
| 19 | The same wasted effort and security risk would apply if the UK importer in our example were to pay in sterling . |
| 20 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | They were to be wandering years , but they were to end in triumph . |
| 23 | Two major defeats in ten years , followed now by the capture of the king , led to rebellion in Normandy and civil troubles in Paris which were to end in violence . |
| 24 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 25 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 26 | If she was to indulge in escapism , surely here would be as good a place as any ? |
| 27 | As it was , the temptation was to continue in order to demonstrate success through staying power . |
| 28 | If it was to continue in existence the ILP had to reach some agreement , to find some acceptable compromise between " Unity " and " independence " . |
| 29 | The thing she needed least in the world at this moment was to fall in love with a steward . |
| 30 | There was also the anxiety of discovering where I was to sit in chapel ; then I had to learn the names and whereabouts of the different houses and of the scattered playing fields . |