Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 2 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 3 | The Liverpool keeper 's one big mistake was to flap at a Wallace cross , allowing Cantona to head into a empty net and give Leeds a 4-2 advantage with a couple of minutes left . |
| 4 | However he assured her that she could control the pain and all she had to do to achieve this was to look at a certain corner of the ward ceiling and the pain would go . |
| 5 | The procedure was exactly as for Experiment 1 except condition C was to point at a target using the non-preferred hand while wearing prisms , rather than pointing at an auditory target . |
| 6 | Her routine was to rise at a quarter past seven , bath , take a light breakfast and catch an omnibus into the City . |