Example sentences of "[pron] was [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the patrol I was to submit a comprehensive report of our findings . |
| 2 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 3 | I love a piece of orange , I I would n't eat a whole orange but I do like er little pieces of oranges now I might get away with that but if I was to have a whole orange |
| 4 | Perhaps not the most beautiful bride in the world , but O.K. I would have been quite happy with something new from a shop , but no , I was to have a Proper Wedding Dress ( even if it was n't white ) and a Proper Wedding , with all the trimmings . |
| 5 | By January 1946 de Gaulle was also disturbed by the growing influence of the main political parties , following the October elections of a Constituent Assembly , which was to devise a new constitution . |
| 6 | There remained one last work for him to complete ; already he had begun writing a play which was to concern a successful public man who , at the end of his life , is waiting for death . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll get back to you , ’ Powell promised , mindful of his booking on Ghofar which was to finish a satisfactory 11th . |
| 8 | Washington 's stance seems sure to complicate the United Airlines buyout , which was to close a few days after the 10 October deadline set by Mr Skinner for information on BA 's involvement . |
| 9 | On 27 November , just before their departure , Mozart was granted the title of Concert Master — an honorary appointment which was to become a paid post on his return from Italy : now he had not only a title , but also a position , in Salzburg . |
| 10 | Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee , then a Group Captain commanding 904 Wing , took over the airfield at Kemajoran which was to play a key role in the repatriation of POWs and internees . |
| 11 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 12 | In the black winter of early 1947 , something else happened which was to provide a general justification for the next forty years of dredging and river clearance . |
| 13 | Almost six weeks later , something took place which was to have a lasting effect upon the Judge family ; and it happened quite unexpectedly , without any warning . |
| 14 | In order to reinforce the obligations of the Convention , the Council fostered the establishment of a Commission in 1954 and a European Court of Justice in 1959 , which was to have a deep and direct impact upon ordinary European citizens in the years to come . |
| 15 | A forceful , clean striker , he made an unbeaten 94 in a defeat by Essex in May — a result which was to have a significant bearing on the championship — and soon afterwards scored a maiden century against Kent . |
| 16 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |
| 17 | For example , through the Teacher Placement Service the Head undertook a three week placement at Boots PLC in Meadowhall , fulfilling one of the agreed aims , which was to recruit a retail partner , as this sizeable area of employment was not represented within the partnership . |
| 18 | The creation of an enlightened élite , committed to reform , among the provincial notables was the function of the government-sponsored Economic or Patriotic Societies and the ‘ economic ’ press which was to diffuse a government-sponsored view of the new gospel of progress . |
| 19 | If vessels registered in one member state could freely change to the flag of another member state and , as a result , obtain access to the quotas of that state , the aim of the quota system , which was to ensure a fair distribution of the available fisheries resources among the member states for the benefit of their fishing regions and industries allied thereto , would be frustrated . |
| 20 | The first task that Watkinson set himself was to re-establish a better working relationship between himself and the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 21 | The specific task which Comte set himself was to develop a positive philosophy . |
| 22 | Much surprise was caused in the Swedish trade when it was later announced that she was to head a new educational publishing venture being set up by Sweden 's biggest publishing concern , Bonniers . |
| 23 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 24 | By coincidence it was also Epstein who brought Modigliani together with a woman writer who was to have a profound effect upon his life — Beatrice Hastings . |
| 25 | He met Georges Bettembourg there in 1979 , they became friends and Sustad was invited to go to Shivling in 1981 with Bettembourg and a strong team that included Doug Scott who was to become a great friend and partner , and Don Whillans , who , despite being in his 50s , by then still contributed to the expedition . |
| 26 | It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 27 | I messed at first with Harry Phillimore , who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 28 | William Coote , who was to play a major role in social purity up to the 1920s , went through a typical adolescent conversion experience in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 29 | In a letter in the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1790 , ‘ Philippos ’ , identified by Pugh as Granville Penn , who was to play a central role in the foundation of the London Veterinary College , wrote that he ‘ had often lamented the failure of the plan which the late ingenious M Bourgelat had formed for establishing a veterinary school in England ’ . |
| 30 | But in September 1985 he joined forces with a man who was to play a large part in changing all that . |