Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 2 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 3 | Clearly if a wine bar were to find that the catering side of the business brought more trade and wished to convert part of the bar area into a restaurant , this would not be a material change and would not require planning permission . |
| 4 | Fifteen minutes were to pass before the bell rang a second time , succeeded by that awful rattle . |
| 5 | Two decades were to pass before the prison building programme reached a scale that was to become significant in terms of public expenditure . |
| 6 | Not all were as moderate as Somerset 's , with its stress on equality ; the title of one of the others , Nicholas Bodrugan 's Epitome of the title that the Kynges Maiestie of Englande hath to the souereigntie of Scotland , shows how willing the English were to assume that the Scots could be persuaded to accept a union of unequal partners . |
| 7 | If we were to hold that the division of a final hearing into parts deprived the parties of an unfettered right of appeal , we should be placing an indirect fetter upon the ability of the court to order split trials . |
| 8 | This brought the Poles to the Lothians , Fife , Perthshire and Angus , the areas where many were to stay when the threat of invasion had lifted . |
| 9 | It would be churlish if I or anyone else were to say that the area should not receive whatever funds are needed to redevelop it . |
| 10 | If we were to say that the topic of this discourse fragment is ‘ the meaning of the expression ‘ smoke the houses ’ ' , we could not claim to have said very much of analytic interest . |
| 11 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 12 | So , if the holder of a bill of exchange were suing the acceptor , and the acceptor were to complain that the holder had treated him hardly , or that the bill ought never to have been circulated , and the holder were to say , Now , if you will not make any more complaints , I will not sue you . |
| 13 | Many incidents of a similarly charming nature were to follow as the years went by , without any diminution in the public fascination with this spinster lady from a remote Yorkshire dale dressed in complex layers of well-laundered rags . |
| 14 | A further twenty-seven years were to elapse before the railway reached its ultimate terminus at the Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 15 | A major task of the later software was to arrange that the exposure was chosen automatically according to the current illumination . |
| 16 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 17 | Later , Dunlop was to claim that the payment related to another transaction ; he said that by then he was sole owner of the animal and therefore not due to pay Kilpatrick a share of the fees . |
| 18 | One device which was tried was to claim that the appeal was only an appeal against one of the king-duke 's officers , not against the king-duke himself . |
| 19 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 20 | Their responsibility was to see that the rosters were properly worked out you see . |
| 21 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 22 | MAY I take this opportunity to say how relieved I was to find that the August 1992 issue of your splendid magazine was largely free of the indefatigable hostility directed towards rugby league football by its immediate predecessor ? |
| 23 | But worse was to come than the criticisms laid against him in 189I . |
| 24 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 25 | Her only failure was to discover that the facts ran counter to popular prejudice . |
| 26 | There were no photographs around , but what a fool she was to imagine that the expression in his eyes meant more than the harsh words he dealt her . |
| 27 | Someone told him that the way to make money was to buy when the shares were low and sell when they were high . |
| 28 | The effect of the new evidence from the two women was to suggest that the man who assaulted Miss Wilson was arrested an hour earlier , at 11:50pm , and that they were in the police station making their statements at about the time of the murder and the discovery of the body . |
| 29 | James Graham 's solution was to suggest that the Duke of Montrose dismiss William Weir , but that was easier said than done , for Weir had been appointed in order to oblige one of Montrose 's friends , and James Graham had not made a solution any easier to obtain by promising his substitute that Woodrop should have the appointment of procurator-fiscal to give as he chose . |
| 30 | Berkeley 's seventeenth-century predecessors were as anxious as he was to suggest that the regularity of nature is a manifestation of God 's goodness ; but in making an independent material world the cause of ideas , they give God a less crucial role than Berkeley does . |