Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | During these years Mackmurdo absorbed the main aesthetic and moral influences that were to guide him through his life , not so much from immediate masters as from the writings of John Ruskin , Herbert Spencer [ qq.v. ] , and Auguste Comte . |
| 3 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 4 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 5 | The signalbox at Kirton Lindsey was the subject of an unexplained occurrence that was to baffle everyone for ever . |
| 6 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 7 | Haines died 16 June 1860 , at Bombay harbour on a ship that was to take him to England , one week after his release from prison . |
| 8 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 9 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 10 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 11 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 13 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 14 | Sandra joined the Nicholson crowd in the B-movie circle and was to become something of a model for future long-term relationships . |
| 15 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |