Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , perish the thought , Scotland were scarcely to win a ball from the lineout at Twickenham , this pack would probably still finish the championship having won more possession from that set-piece than any Scotland pack in living memory . |
| 2 | This did not take place , however , because schools would be required to go through the process at different times and such training would probably be of limited value for schools which were not to undertake an appraisal for some time . |
| 3 | In the Highlands it might even be a matter of clanship , for in 1776 Lord Kames declared fugitive five women who had been responsible for assembling a mob which had insulted and attacked Patrick Grant , the new presentee at Boleskine , part of the forfeited Lovat estate , ‘ in resentment that they were not to get a gentleman of the name of Fraser to be their minister ’ . |
| 4 | The 1966 White Paper made it clear that the polytechnics were not to have a monopoly of higher education in the public sector , but they were to have priority development in resource allocations for this purpose . |
| 5 | But the novels were soon to exhibit an interest in misogyny , and to see a connection between ‘ the old hoo-ha ’ and ‘ the old last end ’ — expressions used by Ormerod and Standish respectively , in Take a girl like you , for sexual intercourse and death . |
| 6 | Power cuts were thus to remain a fact of life at winter peak times in Britain into the early 1950s . |
| 7 | Most disturbing is the fact that the company spent an entire year preparing for the strike , convinced that it had to end overmanning and weaken the unions ' grip on production if the newspaper , despite a circulation of 1.1m , were ever to become a money-maker . |
| 8 | ‘ We were n't getting anywhere and the ANC said they were still to reach a decision . |
| 9 | If they were both to preserve a measure of control over the wage structure in a capitalist economy and to win adequate state pensions for their members , then a retirement condition was inevitable . |
| 10 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 11 | How lucky England were also to have a footballer of Halliday 's ability in the side . |
| 12 | At each of these meetings , MacDonald pointed out that if the Labour Party were to refuse office after defeating the Government with the aid of the Liberals , and if Asquith were then to form a Government instead , the Liberals would sit on the Government benches . |
| 13 | They were to follow the track that skirted the south of the swampy depression and were then to take a path to the right which was marked by a great stone shaped like the head of a horse . |
| 14 | Thus paintings were there to reveal a presence behind an appearance — be it that of a madonna , a tree or , simply , the light that soaks through a red . |
| 15 | ‘ We were about to conduct a study into the skin damage problem on Miller wells , ’ said Paul Adair , team leader on Miller well operations . |
| 16 | He and his wife were about to undertake a trip to America and Australia , which in the event developed into something of a busman 's holiday as he was persuaded , perhaps not against his will , to address numerous meetings of trade unionists on the West Coast of the United States and elsewhere . |
| 17 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
| 18 | In another village in the hills where there was a Christian community the village pastor came to find the chaplain and explained that they were about to hold a service of thanksgiving for their liberation and would like some of the troops to attend . |
| 19 | We knew that we were about to join a convoy coming from America . |
| 20 | Melissa felt as if she were about to enter a church . |
| 21 | When they arrived at the college , it seemed even more forbidding than it had in daylight , and as she walked from the car towards the entrance , Loretta felt as though she were about to cross a threshold in time as well as space . |
| 22 | They were , and were about to become a lot weirder . |
| 23 | For a second she thought that the lost one was lost no more and Barbs was back on the beat , but then she saw that the women were about to share a can of something and were clearly old mates . |
| 24 | Angus MacInnes , 47 , sustained head injuries after he was caught in an icefall as he and three friends were about to start a climb in the Cairngorms . |
| 25 | She and I were about to have a glass of champagne . ’ |
| 26 | A shiver of eager excitement surged through his loins and into his breast , contracting his chest muscles as if he were about to suffer a heart attack . |
| 27 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 28 | Time was imperative as the pressure was on to produce a result that would enable Stoddard Templeton to achieve a Spring Launch for the new product . |
| 29 | Kelly was down to ride a two-year-old called Billy Liar for second lot . |
| 30 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |