Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 2 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 3 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 4 | This was to drive something of a wedge between him and Lloyd George and other former Welsh allies . |
| 5 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 6 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 7 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 8 | To turn Christian , in the 1930s and after , was to declare for the past , and only Graham Greene among notable pre-war literary converts to Rome was to maintain anything like a left-Wing view of public affairs . |
| 9 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 10 | The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources . |
| 11 | The theatre of war slowly became enlarged , a fact which , paradoxically , was to prove something of an advantage to the kings of France as they tried , if not always with success , to unite their entire population in a common war effort against the English . |
| 12 | Sandra joined the Nicholson crowd in the B-movie circle and was to become something of a model for future long-term relationships . |
| 13 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |