Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
| 2 | He said that the main objectives of the programme were to achieve an annual growth rate of 3-5 per cent ; to reduce the annual rate of inflation to 3.6 per cent per annum by 1995 and to reduce the country 's external debt . |
| 3 | These trips to the United States were to become a regular event , part of his routine as it were , and there was a sense in which he was returning home . |
| 4 | These doubts were to find a wider resonance in the twentieth century . |
| 5 | The aims of this new coalition were to press the British government into acting more forcefully against terrorism and to force a return to something like the old majority rule at Stormont . |
| 6 | So long as the intended effect was achieved all means were justified : architecture , ornament , sculpture , painting , all the arts were to serve the optical illusion . |
| 7 | Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course . |
| 8 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 9 | The goals were to establish a New World Order which would prepare the way for the New World ‘ messiah ’ , the Lord Maitreya . |
| 10 | It would undoubtedly be of great benefit to future scholars working in this field if the College were to create a central repository of classified material on a sector of education of which it is , after all , a not insignificant part . |
| 11 | Both the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were to form the essential ingredients of the professional consensus which emerged in the years following the publication of the General Theory known as the neo-classical synthesis . |
| 12 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 13 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 14 | His first act after his coronation was to order a punitive attack on Naggaroth . |
| 15 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 16 | The point of this experiment was to strengthen the alloxan data . |
| 17 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 18 | This lack of appreciation was to have an adverse effect upon his stance in some of the debates in the 1920s ; something he came to realise and rectify later on . |
| 19 | It was not until the appearance of Michael Cimino 's The Deerhunter ( 1979 ) that the Vietnam combat movie was to make a significant impact . |
| 20 | Navarre 's reply was to establish a massive fortified camp near the Lao border at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 21 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 22 | The Conservatives ' original goal in opposition was to stabilize the total public spending figure in real terms at its 1977 level and for that total to fall as a share of GDP as the economy grew . |
| 23 | But such work did not seem to be forthcoming , and his sole immediate chance of usefulness was to become an air-raid warden for his area of Kensington : in this new role , he had to rehearse the procedure for marshalling people in the event of an air raid , and to practise his fire drill by putting out bonfires in Emperor 's Gate . |
| 24 | Since the aim of the research was to illuminate the industrial relations of state enterprises by examining two corporations in considerable detail , there was a need to collect material rich enough to illustrate the nature of the processes at work . |
| 25 | If David was to have a few drinks it would all come out . |
| 26 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 27 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
| 28 | The aim of this study was to analyse an unselected series of coeliac disease patients presenting in their seventh decade or beyond to a District General Hospital . |
| 29 | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the longterm clinical and endoscopical effects of Nissen fundoplication performed for reflux , including assessment of oesophageal function . |
| 30 | The aim of this study was to measure the overall plasminogen activator activity and concentrations of individual fibrinolytic system mediators in ascites secondary to alcoholic liver disease or malignancy to gain a greater understanding about the aetiology of this condition . |