Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Smike were to play in a drama that required him to hide from someone , the pain of suddenly being found might hurt , but not with the rawness nor with the permanence of actuality . |
| 2 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 3 | The programme , which Gorbachev was to present to the G-7 summit in London , was said to combine elements of the rival plans widely canvassed in June [ see p. 38272 ] , i.e. the official " anti-crisis " programme of Prime Minister Pavlov , and the radical " grand bargain " proposals of economist Grigory Yavlinsky . |
| 4 | At a humbler level , it gave him the service of Richard Barnby of Great Gonerby , whom Richard was to add to the Lincolnshire commission of array in winter 1484 . |
| 5 | At a humbler level , it gave him the service of Richard Barnby of Great Gonerby , whom Richard was to add to the Lincolnshire commission of array in winter 1484 . |
| 6 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's plan for the British attack in Flanders was to break through the German line from the Ypres salient and then encircle the German right flank resting on the North Sea coast . |
| 7 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 8 | Without Gooch , the victim of food poisoning the night before the game , much depended on Mike Gatting if England were to escape with a draw following India 's first innings run-riot of 560 for six declared . |
| 9 | The version that Bethel was working towards in this statement was not precisely the road that the CNAA was to take in the mid-1980s but it was an outline model of development at the end of the 1970s which attempted to go beyond the decisions contained in the CNAA 's 1979 document . |
| 10 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 11 | Chiarelli was to remain in the government to oversee integration with neighbouring countries in the South American Common Market ( Mercosur — see pp. 38096 ; 38331 ] . |
| 12 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 13 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 14 | Christopher was to embark on a painful programme of physiotherapy . |
| 15 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 16 | And if Pig Street were to fall under the axe , there would be a real rag-bag of properties of every sort razed to the ground , including — from the sublime to the ridiculous — a tennis court and a dung pit : |
| 17 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 18 | At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) . |
| 19 | Ltd. and Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Maats of Rotterdam was to operate from the Albert Dock . |
| 20 | Here we find the theoretical corollary of what Althusser was to characterize as the tragic ‘ double thesis ’ of Sartre 's ‘ historicist humanism ’ , and which produced , in Michael Sprinker 's words , a ‘ ceaseless rebounding between the poles of revolutionary optimism and historical pessimism ’ . |
| 21 | John Patten was to reply to the debate on education and there was to be a debate on defence . |
| 22 | An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status . |
| 23 | Under the terms of the accord , all Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique were to withdraw to the Beira and Limpopo corridors , the two strategic routes linking landlocked Zimbabwe with the Mozambican ports of Beira and Maputo . |
| 24 | A typical idea abroad in Paris was to protest against the Vietnam War by floating oriental corpses , borrowed from the morgue , down the Seine with copious amounts of red dye . |
| 25 | ‘ For Mandelson 's Hartlepool opponents it must be rather as if George Bush were to retire from the White House and run for Mayor of Amarillo , ’ said yesterday 's Independent . ) |
| 26 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 27 | As Christine de Pisan was to show in the first quarter of the century , the use of artillery for defensive purposes was now regarded as necessary and normal . |
| 28 | The purpose of the original program in Whelan v Jaslow was to assist in the running of dental laboratories . |
| 29 | As the government of Norway was to state during the free trade discussions of 1958 , ‘ whatever the United Kingdom does we must do as well ’ . |
| 30 | Paddy Mayne was to concentrate on the road between Agheila and Bouerat , while B Squadron was to move to the west , raiding up as far as Tripoli . |