Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Home Secretary announced the additional numbers for police forces throughout England and Wales , I was shocked to find that Gwent merited only one extra officer and was astounded to find that the South Wales police force was not to have a single extra officer , especially as the chief constable has undertaken a major review to ensure the best use of available manpower , a process which must continue . |
| 2 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 3 | For Malta however an event of much lesser magnitude was soon to have an effect infinitely greater on the immediate concern of the defenders . |
| 4 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 5 | MI6 's mistake was not to have a convincing cover story ready as soon as Crabb failed to return . |
| 6 | Vidor was always to have a special affection for this film but later film historians have had many reservations . |
| 7 | A Scottish woman whose son was about to have an operation had a dream the night before it was due . |