Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 2 | Those orders were to remain in force until the next hearing on 31 January 1992 . |
| 3 | They replied , ‘ Oh , but we were to go for drinks with Derek tonight . ’ |
| 4 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 5 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 6 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 7 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 8 | The Heartbreakers were to fall from grace with violent rapidity towards the end of 1977 , only to re-emerge as cult heroes in 1984 . |
| 9 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 10 | If only Harry were to fall in love with her they could have a wonderful life together . |
| 11 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | The inflationary stimulus of the war saw the promotion of fifteen offices between 1793 and 1815 , but twenty-nine were to come into existence between 1815 and 1830 and fifty-six between 1830 and 1844 . |
| 13 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 14 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 15 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 16 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 17 | Many such individuals , from Alexander Raven Thomson in the leadership to fascist rank-and-file like Jeffrey Hamm and Robert Row , were deeply committed entrants into the movement who were to stand by Mosley through all his trials and tribulations . |
| 18 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 19 | At the local level control was taken away from the School Boards and put into the hands of local councils who were to serve as LEAs in their own areas . |
| 20 | Thereafter sessions were to revert to Bonn pending a decision on the final seat of parliament [ see pp. 37661 ; 37832 ] . |
| 21 | If , for instance , ICI were to buy into stock for use in later months a product whose price collapsed in the meantime , the loss could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 22 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 23 | A referendum , in which Western Saharans were to vote for integration into Morocco or independence under Polisario , was still scheduled for Jan. 26 , 1992 . |
| 24 | Our trip , in August 1968 , was to be in the utmost secrecy and we were to fly to Johannesburg under the names of Mr Aitken and Mr Goodman . |
| 25 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 26 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 27 | It would be very disgusting if Betty were to burst into tears in the sunshine . |
| 28 | These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom . |
| 29 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 30 | Yet the consequences of this simple beginning were to spread like ripples on a pond . |