Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As officers were to acknowledge in the formal consultation document on closure in 1986 , community mental health services were not all in place in the Riverside District , but the underlying objective of the strategy , to release resources to fund community service developments , had been achieved . |
| 2 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 3 | In addition to these structural changes — and they were to continue in the 1970s and 1980s with Channel Four and TV-am , to say nothing of cable systems and satellite broadcasting — the underlying philosophy of broadcasting was being increasingly and powerfully challenged . |
| 4 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 5 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 6 | I think the postman would never have been able to decipher your scribble , your own version of Walser 's MS , Bleistiftgebiet or Kingdom of the Pencil , which we were to describe in a later poem , ‘ The Poem in the Pencil ’ . |
| 7 | Whatever fame future choreographers were to have in the commercial theatre , not one could claim such an instantaneous reaction . |
| 8 | They were to stay in the worst conditions imaginable for a month , before they were all sent to a detention camp at Kedos , in the mountains of Anatolia . |
| 9 | So if disorder were to decrease in the contracting phase of the universe , one might also expect it to decrease inside a black hole . |
| 10 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
| 11 | The most important developments , however , were to occur in the top tier of designated districts — the Partnerships . |
| 12 | At the time those concerns were far less significant than they were to become in the late 1970s , and reorganization was actually accompanied by a substantial increase in local authority spending . |
| 13 | It was n't immediately evident from some camps whether the idea was to continue in a serious vein of rugby competition or subject themselves to the physical demands of the concentrated social calendar . |
| 14 | From these deathly origins Nizan 's life span was to proceed in an anguished spiral . |
| 15 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 16 | His first public act was to preach in the biggest white church in this segregated city . |
| 17 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 18 | Edward loved his youngest son , and therefore had a clause written into his will , stating that Swift Investments was to remain in the Swift family . |
| 19 | At the heart of most of Krieger 's work lies the foursquare , Lutheran-hymn-like strophic melody as in his earliest known song ( which was to appear in a revised form , ‘ Nun sich der Tag geendet hat ’ , in the Neue Arien ) : |
| 20 | Andy Murdoch 's fine penalty save from Mark Hateley was a bitter pill for the home support to swallow but worse was to come in the 65th minute . |
| 21 | He was to come in the small hours , . |
| 22 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
| 23 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 24 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 25 | They came on him rapidly and powerfully and he decided that all he could do was to circle in a gentle way to indicate that he was not hostile , his heart filled with joy to see his own kind . |
| 26 | Within the new universities one response to this perception of student " inadequacy " was to engage in a certain amount of disciplinary " cross-fertilization " ; and to depend more upon the " civilizing power " of a few " great books " considered to have some contemporary " relevance " than upon a " professional " approach to English studies . |
| 27 | The explicitly polemical nature of the attack on the persistence of Balzacian realism was perceived as ‘ historically necessary ’ if French fiction was to progress in a positive way . |
| 28 | Formed in the aftermath of the 1931 financial crisis , PEP exemplified that liberal-reformist strand of ‘ middle opinion ’ that was to grow in the 1930s and provide the basis for the political shift leftwards during the Second World War . |
| 29 | Its emphasis on careful measurement and exact analysis of the events mediated by receptors was to be justified by the key role this was to play in the subsequent development of novel drugs for the treatment of , for example , angina and hypertension . |
| 30 | Although these proposals were not accepted , they represented the forerunners of the policy which was to emerge in the 1970s . |