Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Elves who remained were to found the Wood Elf realms of the Old World . |
| 2 | The establishment of the mixed patrician-plebeian collegium of the Xviri sacris faciundis coincides with the full parification of the two orders in the Licinian-Sextian laws of 367 B.C. The members of the college presumably had to know some Greek if they were to consult the Sibylline books . |
| 3 | During 1905 , work was commenced on the various lines which were to form the South Metropolitan system , starting first on the Selby Road ‘ Robin Hood ’ Penge High Street section , then the Mitcham Light Railways . |
| 4 | He was , however , appointed as one of the leaders of the stewards who were to control the DCAC 's first demonstration , which was to be held on 19 October : |
| 5 | On the other hand , if one were to take the Stiglitz line ( 1985 ) , things would not be as clear-cut . |
| 6 | The nation were to take the Beatles to their hearts . |
| 7 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 8 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 9 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 10 | Atlantis was to carry the Galileo space probe on the first leg of a six-year voyage to Jupiter this afternoon . |
| 11 | Dos Santos on Oct. 10 cancelled a visit to the USA , where he was to attend the UN General Assembly , having failed to obtain high-level meetings with US politicians , and in protest at " hostile US policy " towards his government ( which remained unrecognized by the USA ) . |
| 12 | This was to see the Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet dance Les Sylphides , and The Two Pigeons , at a performance commemorating the life and work of the late Sir Frederick Ashton , who gave us so many wonderful productions . |
| 13 | Yet , of course , a machine that was to pass the Turing test fully should have this authority , because we do , or appear to do . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most important single decision taken by the District during the twenties was to accept the Carnegie Trust 's offer to support financially the appointment of a tutor for the development of rural adult education . |
| 15 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 16 | While Piłsudski was to accuse the KPP of undoing his own hard work as military leader and of trying to dismember Poland by ‘ Trojan horse methods ’ , Moscow decided to rein in the free-thinking Polish socialists . |
| 17 | To revive liberty was to revive the Cortes . |
| 18 | Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler 's revelations about the seamy underbelly of England 's public life rocked the government and effectively ended the Tory Party patriarchy : ‘ The upper-class … image of Mr Macmillan himself had acted as a catalyst for all the aggression that was to unleash the New England of Mr Wilson and the Beatles . ’ |
| 19 | John Barratt was to oversee the Coniston adventure from Grassington but making frequent visits . |
| 20 | This was to open the Jackie Stewart Shooting School at Gleneagles , which is most efficiently run by Mr Justin Jones son of Mr Alan Jones , who with his brother Noel Jones , run the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , that was started by their father . |
| 21 | On intellectual property a Chinese team was to visit the USA on Nov. 20-21 to try and resolve issues of copyright violation and computer software and patent protection . |
| 22 | ( In addition to the numerous foreign minister-level discussions held during this time , Kohl also visited Paris on Feb. 15 and was to visit the UK for talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in March . ) |
| 23 | She was asking something from him , this stranger whose job was to shoot the IRA assassins if they came . |
| 24 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 25 | the aim of which was to reverse the Liverpool decisions and to recruit Communist support within the Labour Party . |
| 26 | In Berlin it was agreed that with the depression eating away at Danzig 's own tax revenues , the city 's only possible course of action was to devalue the Danzig gulden by 57.5 per cent to achieve parity with the zloty . |
| 27 | With Vance , he was to co-chair the UN-EC peace initiative . |
| 28 | What he could and did do , throughout the Algiers year , was to strengthen the CFLN 's position inside and outside France so that , whenever the operation began , the CFLN would be in the best position to preempt Allied attempts to marginalize it . |
| 29 | The apparent aim was to strengthen the Sunday Telegraph , which with a circulation of 667,000 was nearly half a million copies behind the daily and facing a fight for its life . |
| 30 | The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 . |