Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 2 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 3 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 4 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 5 | For example , a basalt flow which is moving over a dry , sandy surface is quite well-behaved and peaceful , but if the same flow were to advance on to an area of wet , boggy ground , or on to a snow-field , the water trapped beneath the lava may be heated up and turned into high-pressure steam . |
| 6 | On Oct. 1 Russian observers who had arrived in Baku , the Azerbaijani capital , on Sept. 28 to monitor the ceasefire , were reported as saying that in Kazakh district there were no hostilities and that they were to move on to Kubatlin district next day . |
| 7 | If Englishmen in America were to push on to the west , it was fairly predictable that there would be clashes with the thinly scattered Indian population , and it was quite certain that if they went far enough either west or north they would meet the French . |
| 8 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 9 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 10 | In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 . |
| 11 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 12 | We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais . |
| 13 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 14 | Third , we know that from 1757 in Rome , the Teatro Argentina paid a particular violinist to take charge of the ballet music separately from the opéra repertory ( a trend that was to catch on in Italy ) . |
| 15 | In London in 1331 , he was engaged as master of the new work of the chapter house and cloister of St Paul 's Cathedral by June 1332 , and was to press on to completion , but the chapter house had not quite been finished in 1349 . |
| 16 | The damage that I once managed to inflict was to bend on of the metal strips away from the needle . |
| 17 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 18 | I was to keep on with the Radio Column , some reviews , and any special features I could dream up . |
| 19 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 20 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 21 | He was to live on until 1832 , when he died , aged 58 described as being of the Lower Market Place . |
| 22 | Edith was to live on until 1928 , dying in Bath . |
| 23 | One of the most dangerous stunts Crawford did in the new series was to hang on to the back of a car as it dangled over sea and rocks two hundred feet below . |
| 24 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 25 | This was an idea she was to hold on to throughout the process . |
| 26 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 27 | As he saw it , the job of the Church was to get on with the task of proclaiming the gospel and ministering the sacraments . |
| 28 | My task , apart from the usual household chores , was to get on with the work for my three summer O-levels and to get ahead by starting to work towards my A-levels — English , Latin and Greek . |
| 29 | The posting to Bahrein was cancelled , and I was to stay on in London , at least for the moment . |
| 30 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |