Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing she needed least in the world at this moment was to fall in love with a steward . |
| 2 | Neither was I told to examine in minute detail , every blade of grass that my kit was to come in contact with . |
| 3 | A similar theme was to recur in Harlequin in April , one of John 's first fully successful ballets in Britain , then again in Opus 1 and Song of My People . |
| 4 | But during the three eight-week terms his routine was to sleep in college , at least for the days in the middle of the week . |
| 5 | This new fashion for dressing a corpse was to remain in vogue for the next fifty years . |
| 6 | The same wasted effort and security risk would apply if the UK importer in our example were to pay in sterling . |
| 7 | But my strategy was to keep in mind the long-term situation … . |
| 8 | Drawn up by a panel of civilian and military experts , the charter was to remain in force for a 30-month interim period , at the end of which a referendum would be held on a new constitution for Chad . |
| 9 | The charter was to remain in force until a general election ( scheduled for 1993 ) . |
| 10 | And it did not mention a fixed life-span , with provision for renewal or renegotiation : the Treaty was to remain in force for ‘ an unlimited period ’ . |
| 11 | The interim coalition was to be led by a Prime Minister drawn from outside the main parties , and Lukanov 's government was to stay in office until the new government was formed . |
| 12 | ‘ The spirit of the thing was to contribute in kind , ’ explains Mr Hollins . |
| 13 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 14 | Until the report was published , the question of the balance of Meehan 's compensation for seven years ' wrongful imprisonment was to remain in abeyance . |
| 15 | Better still , one can infer from the passage that MacDonald 's main purpose was to stay in power , and thus he would welcome a National Government if it enabled him to do so . |
| 16 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 17 | However if the the panel was to find in favour of Policy E two er the regional office have reservations regarding the the the tone and tenor of of the wording in the policies . |
| 18 | If the Empire was to be welded into an economic unit , the parts of which would be interdependent economically because they were parts of the Empire , and if this unity was to stand in default or in anticipation of political unity , then what was necessary was Imperial free trade , a genuine Zollverein . |
| 19 | As it was , the temptation was to continue in order to demonstrate success through staying power . |
| 20 | Another increasingly common way round the rules at the time was to engage in lease/lease-back arrangements , which became more and more complicated as the rules surrounding them tried to plug loop-holes , until they were finally outlawed in 1987 . |