Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 2 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 3 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 4 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 5 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 6 | Such inspiration on the captain 's part was to help him towards an OBE , for with England then beating Australia in the first two games of the final , their clean sweep of three trophies out of three was accomplished . |
| 7 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |