Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A massive blow , delivered at maximum speed , was to knock France out of the war in the first six weeks ; then , using Germany 's efficient interior rail system , the victorious troops were to be rushed east to destroy the Tsar 's armies before Russia 's cumbersome mobilization could be completed . |
| 2 | Such commitments , in spite of their essential unfeasibility , were to be restated time and again in future elections . |
| 3 | Upgrading the facilities would primarily involve an extension to the computer network to service three additional visitors per year , at a cost of 4500 Ecu , and the provision of an additional research microscope if the proposed visitor were to be considering diatom research , at a cost of 45000 Ecu . |
| 4 | Companies hit by labour disputes were to be granted emergency loans and allowed to postpone tax repayments for up to nine months . |
| 5 | Alexander raised none of the questions which would have to be answered if emancipation were to take place : whether serfs were to be granted land as well as liberty , whether and how they were to pay for them , and how local government was to be conducted if the jurisdiction of serf-owners came to an end . |
| 6 | Decaying regions were to be given aid to create new industries along the lines of the Barlow report of 1940 . |
| 7 | The American art historian whom she had met in Perugia reappeared as professor on a sabbatical from his East Coast university , and was to be seen dining with Esther in restaurants beyond the reach of the undergraduate purse : the Arts Theatre Restaurant , Miller 's , the Garden House Hotel . |
| 8 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |
| 9 | Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires . |
| 10 | Legh offered twenty pounds , the gem which his dead mistress had prized so much , and some gold earrings , saying that the infant was to be called Topaz . |
| 11 | In the heart of this early Frankish kingdom lay the region which , much later , was to be called Champagne . |
| 12 | At this level the ‘ victim ’ was to be heard pounding on the wall . |
| 13 | One , firstly , if equal distribution was to be achieved peasant mobilization and increase produc erm if equally distribution was to achieve its goals of peasant mobilization and increased production , there had to be enough land available to bring most peasants up to an independent pe peasant status without encroaching upon the existing er middle peasants . |
| 14 | In the Ministry of all the Talents his reward was to be made secretary to the Board of Control , 1806–7 . |
| 15 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 16 | Leopold II was to be crowned King of Bohemia in Prague in October , and a suitable opera was hastily required — in less than two months . |
| 17 | For the first time she began to wonder if she was to be given leadership beyond the context of Africa . |
| 18 | Within this context , education was to be given priority as the chief means " for promoting in social life that equality of condition with which men now faced death on the battlefield . " |
| 19 | Since it was revealed that Middlesbrough was to be given environment city status the borough council has organised a number of initiatives to help improve the town . |
| 20 | The whole sculpture was to be sprayed gold which would symbolise the prosperity to come . |
| 21 | Where these three conditions were n't met then policy erm reducing interest and rents was to be taking place . |
| 22 | Under a court ruling , Pastor Tokes was to be shifted east after pressure was put on church elders who acceded to the regime 's order to move the troublesome clergyman away from the town . |
| 23 | In addition he was to be found building amphitheatres in Soissons and Paris to provide shows for the citizens . |
| 24 | Most felt that the most important thing was to be making art , and making it on their own terms . |
| 25 | Langton was to be promoted archbishop of Canterbury by Innocent and so began the long quarrel between the Holy See and King John . |
| 26 | It was to be entitled Drive , He Said which was taken from the Robert Creely poem : |