Example sentences of "[noun] was [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so to recap , my ambition was to look at Blackwomen 's Creativity across a spectrum of activities including fine art , childbearing , opera , theatre etc . |
| 2 | The horse was to stay at Dunure and the men were to continue as joint owners . |
| 3 | By mid-April German soldiers were complaining in letters home of the high casualties suffered by their ration parties ; ‘ many would rather endure hunger than make these dangerous expeditions for food ’ General von Zwehl whose corps was to stay at Verdun , without relief , during the whole ten months the battle lasted , speaks of a special ‘ kind of psychosis ’ that infected his men there . |
| 4 | William Cobbett poured scorn on ‘ Pitt 's ditch ’ , asking if a 30-foot-wide canal was to keep at bay an army which had crossed the Rhine and the Danube . |
| 5 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 6 | Another route was to start at Selby Road , the Croydon boundary and proceed along Croydon Road and Green Lane , Penge where it met a small enclave of Beckenham before the Lewisham Boundary . |
| 7 | Mr Willis said the next stage was to look at design development and engineering performance . |