Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family . |
| 2 | Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right . |
| 3 | The aim was to restore as far as was practically possible the conditions of the pre-First World War era . |
| 4 | Perhaps she did not realize how easy it was to sit perfectly still while you studied the faces one by one of the people in the audience , imagining their names , learned the words of the speaking players , and then — best of all ! — played the Wishing Game . |
| 5 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 6 | It was to meet as often as was thought desirable . |
| 7 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 8 | An ex-Marxian socialist in post-war Oxford , he was to avow as late as 1957 , in an address to the Fabian Society called Socialism and the Intellectuals , that he had voted Labour in every election since 1945 , and ‘ unless something very unexpected happens , I shall vote Labour to the end of my days — however depraved the Labour candidate may be , and however virtuous his opponent . ’ |
| 9 | He decided that the best thing for him to do was to leave as soon as possible , before other people arrived and the situation became very complicated . |
| 10 | Exile from the West Country was to last far longer than Coleridge can have expected . |
| 11 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 12 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 13 | Ferdinando was already on his horse , which he was to ride as far as the station . |
| 14 | The procedure adopted was to err as far as possible on the side of conservatism , scoring each reply as ‘ psychotic ’ only where this seemed reasonably certain . |
| 15 | The subject 's task was to judge as quickly as possible whether the second clause was a sensible continuation of the first . |
| 16 | It did n't see to matter that the match was still in progress and was to end up even when Tom Watson , Mark McCumber , Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange beat Sam Torrance , Gordon Brand Jnr , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam . |
| 17 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 18 | And it was very difficult to erm to get to get much activity going in the flats cos people 's people 's aim was to get out rather than to improve the conditions or or work on local issues . |