Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr. Ron Lord , Wakefield 's assistant chief financial officer , points out in the Municipal Journal , they could at least introduce the poll tax ’ against a background of a stable rating system which managers were able to put on automatic pilot while diverting their attention to the multitude of practical problems that were to arise with the new system . |
| 2 | The puppies that were to remain in the UK , although shown , achieved no obvious success , either in the show ring or as breeding prospects . |
| 3 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 4 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 5 | The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it . |
| 6 | It was the beginning of an on-off professional relationship that was to persist into the 1970s , by which time , in London , Neville would even write for Rowe 's new magazine , Spare Rib . |
| 7 | From Paris , Jean-Jacques Lebel wrote an obituary for the surrealist André Breton , beginning a relationship between the French semi-Situationist and the British underground press that was to persist into the following decade . |
| 8 | The latter was at Jalo Oasis , in command of a motorized force that was to operate on the southern flank of the Eighth Army . |
| 9 | He was associated with Edward Irving and Henry Drummond [ qq.v. ] and participated in the early prophetic conferences at Albury , but later distanced himself from the movement that was to result in the formation of the Catholic Apostolic Church . |
| 10 | Possibly it was only after they came together under the aegis of Apollinaire , one of the greatest artistic impresarios of his age , that they felt the attraction towards each other that was to result in the most unusual and intensive collaboration in the history of art . |
| 11 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 12 | Formed in the aftermath of the 1931 financial crisis , PEP exemplified that liberal-reformist strand of ‘ middle opinion ’ that was to grow in the 1930s and provide the basis for the political shift leftwards during the Second World War . |
| 13 | The Centre was composed of 26 individuals , and was to report to the HCS president and to " initiate actions when contraventions of human rights are noticed or brought to its attention " . |
| 14 | In the loyalist camp an intense controversy on strategy was in progress and was to continue through the following months . |
| 15 | After the murder in April of one of Pravda 's rabkory who had reported abuses in a Moscow factory , the whole movement was galvanized into greater activity , and was to spread round the provinces by 1923 . |
| 16 | Much , however , already had and was to happen behind the scenes . |
| 17 | Soon after , at the offices of Peace News , the pacifist paper that had provided , and was to provide into the 1960s , the key radical voice of the new movement , the first Aldermaston March was organized by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War . |
| 18 | The operation , run by the police , Army and Air Force , was to last 60 days and was to result in the eviction of all garimpeiros from the 2,000-sq km reserve which had been progressively invaded over the previous two to three years . |
| 19 | This phase corresponds to the mid-Victorian press and was to end at the turn of the century with the confirmation of the marketplace and commercialism as the key determinants of the press . |