Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 2 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 3 | Such control was obviously necessary if he were to develop within himself the capacity to enjoy the vastly increased range of pleasures that could be derived from his expanding emotions . |
| 4 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 5 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 6 | and was to do with what the rights would be erm in terms of benefits and in terms of compensation from the council when they moved out . |
| 7 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 8 | Gandhi himself claimed that his purpose in fasting was to take upon himself the burden of the workers ; he was identifying himself with them and sharing their despair , frustration and suffering . |
| 9 | Between 1394 and 1396 negotiations continued , and in March 1396 the two sides agreed to a truce of twenty-eight years and the marriage of Richard II to one of Charles VI 's daughters , Isabella , who was to bring with her a large dowry . |