Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the last walking holiday the two brothers were ever to take together . |
| 2 | While the intention was also to speed up procedures , the initial introduction caused some practical difficulties . |
| 3 | The Board began to discuss changes during Herwald Ramsbotham 's tenure as president ; the intention was explicitly to pre-empt more radical change . |
| 4 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 5 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 6 | Or maybe Roecastle was just to warn out after all those punnishing reserve games ? ? ! ! ? ? |
| 7 | The poor , as Catholic conservatives were later to point out , were disinherited by liberal legislation . |
| 8 | According to the survey , if 22 000 electronics engineers were suddenly to appear overnight , they would all get jobs in British industry . |
| 9 | As the frontiers of empire contracted over the next half-century , the dispossessed loyalists were either to leave home and livelihood for the safety of the mother country or else endeavour to seek pardon and accommodation with their new masters . |
| 10 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 11 | The hospital authorities today apologised unreservedly for the mistake and said an inquiry was underway to find out how it was ever allowed to happen . |
| 12 | Their aim was then to reduce both frequency and duration . |
| 13 | Although the Greeks were later to picture both Zeus and Poseidon wielding a double-axe representing a thunderbolt , the weapon was earlier held only by Rhea . |
| 14 | If Harry were ever to know how she felt , he would never again be able to show the same natural affection , albeit of a brotherly nature , which was all she had of his heart . |
| 15 | She almost wished Oliver were there to see how it should be done . |
| 16 | The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up . |
| 17 | That instinctive understanding of her place in the showbusiness scheme of things was later to rub off on Kylie 's fellow Neighbours exile Jason Donovan , who was persuaded by his long time friend to abandon ideas of hardening up his dance music into something U2ish . |
| 18 | The political centre suffered a series of heart attacks from 1905 onwards , of which the body of society as a whole was only to become fully aware after 1928 . |
| 19 | A second operational factor was eventually to prove even more critical for nuclear economics . |
| 20 | World War II had a disastrous effect and tonnages were never to rise again to the levels of earlier years . |
| 21 | Moss was never to get that close to the title again and his career ended on Easter Monday 1962 , after a high-speed crash at Goodwood . |
| 22 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 23 | It was exactly what Jaq was here to watch out for . |
| 24 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 25 | Greene told the inquiry , which was spread over three races , that his instructions were also to sit in behind and monitor Vaguely Artistic . |
| 26 | The poor man was here to get over a bereavement . |
| 27 | However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ? |
| 28 | Their approach was just to stick out the records , but more thought went into later releases and we had a structure where the label was treated with more importance . |
| 29 | Both men were later to look back on their partnership with great affection , and their views on organisation ( culled from the trade union and civil service worlds ) coincided remarkably . |
| 30 | Charles was soon to find out what Lothar 's words were worth . |