Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 2 | On the day Wendy was to go home a woman came to issue a birth certificate for the baby . |
| 3 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 4 | In Pomerania , where in practice serfdom was to last almost a generation longer than in any other corner of Europe , the Prussians were able to prevent even a narrow coincidence of interests between the Polish nobles and peasants by inviting the nobles to leave and by inviting the peasants to become Prussians . |
| 5 | The full course of study was to last only a year . |
| 6 | One collective line of approach adopted by the GCC was to put forward a draft resolution to the UN Security Council , so worded as to highlight the Iranian role in endangering shipping , while remaining silent on that of Iraq . |
| 7 | Their first move was to put together a leaflet containing a map of the areas being prospected and a list of concerns related to the effects of gold mining : this was distributed in June . |
| 8 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |
| 9 | How hard it was to harm even a copy of him ? ’ |
| 10 | I thought it would only take a couple of days to clear up , but it was to take quite a lot longer . |