Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 2 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 3 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 4 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 5 | Carlie was to stay at the foster home ‘ until the home situation stabilises ’ . |
| 6 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 7 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 8 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 9 | Von Kluck on the right wing was to strike at the French left , through Brussels , Mons and Le Cateau , toward the River Somme near Amiens , while Bülow wheeled south of Liège , up the River Sambre . |
| 10 | You will not be entitled to redundancy compensation under Section 10 of the Scheme in the event that your appointment were to terminate at the expiry of the fixed term without being renewed or extended . |
| 11 | The new musical was to open at the Palace Theatre , Manchester , for three weeks , before moving to the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in London 's West End . |
| 12 | Many see the Basquiat retrospective as a referendum on the Whitney Museum 's curatorial standards , but just a month before the show was to open at the Whitney , a New York weekly reported that the museum had sought to fire Richard Marshall , the show 's curator , who had spent years preparing the project with Gerard Basquiat and the Robert Miller Gallery . |
| 13 | At the end of the fourth week the players moved to Edinburgh where The Confidential Clerk was to open at the Lyceum on 25 August . |
| 14 | His special trick was to look at the floor a lot . |
| 15 | All he had to do to check on her story was to ask at the pub . |
| 16 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 17 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |