Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 2 | Action : If the user were to proceed to the module entry phase , Y DCs would be required for modules in package P. This number of DCs exceeds the LIFESPAN maximum . |
| 3 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 4 | It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall . |
| 5 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 6 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 7 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 8 | They 'd come up to Hampstead to have coffee and we were to go to the Everyman , but the queue was too long . |
| 9 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 10 | Following further argument in Rome , it was decided that episcopal elections were to fall to the convents of Coventry and Lichfield by turn . |
| 11 | Sources suggest that if Moon , who is currently considering his position , were to indicate to the BMC that he had not fully understood the consequences of taking part , then a compromise could be worked out . |
| 12 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 13 | Largely due to Bernard , they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court . |
| 14 | By the optimistic view of the 1972 White Paper , they were to increase to an average of 6,000 full-time students each by 1981 , making 180,000 students in all . |
| 15 | The short-cuts provided in weapon development were to lead to a paring of independence , stunting of British research and development capacity , and a strengthening of the anchor cables holding Britain in her position as an offshore island of the United States at a time when closer relations with Europe were becoming more compelling . |
| 16 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 17 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 18 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 19 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 20 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 21 | If Elves were to sail to the Isle today they would find the High Elf mages of old , caught like flies in amber , still chanting their ages-long spells to preserve the balance of the world . |
| 22 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 23 | If one were to suggest to an electronics engineer that he might want to study how a circuit works by pulling bits out and observing changes in function his reaction would probably be one of horror ! |
| 24 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 25 | If this kind of picture were to apply to the London Caribbean community , we should expect to find a pattern where Creole was used between members of the first generation and by them to their children . |
| 26 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 27 | In Uganda the nationalizations were to extend to the import and export business , although President Milton Obote in his first presidency was ousted by General Amin before being able to implement the programme . |
| 28 | However , as Colwell et al have pointed out ( Colwell et al , 1983 ) if enhanced platelet aggregation were to contribute to the pathogenesis of diabetic vascular disease then evidence of it should be present before the development of vascular disease . |
| 29 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 30 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |