Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] in the [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 | Whatever fame future choreographers were to have in the commercial theatre , not one could claim such an instantaneous reaction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So if disorder were to decrease in the contracting phase of the universe , one might also expect it to decrease inside a black hole . |
| 9 | The most important developments , however , were to occur in the top tier of designated districts — the Partnerships . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 12 | His first public act was to preach in the biggest white church in this segregated city . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was to come in the small hours , . |
| 17 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although these proposals were not accepted , they represented the forerunners of the policy which was to emerge in the 1970s . |
| 23 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 24 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 25 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 26 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 27 | Kevin Briley , whose favourite horse Shine On was to run in the big handicap , talked to his charge as he mucked him out . |
| 28 | But within a mere eight years , the movement had begun which was to result in the large-scale recruitment of women to the Edinburgh book-houses . |
| 29 | There is more than a hint here of the subsequent legislation in restraint of alienation which was to result in the English statute of Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) . |
| 30 | The proponents of the radical reform of the Poor Law which was to result in the workhouse-based act of 1834 , with its hated principle of " less-eligibility " , ensured that the wage-allowance system was presented in the worst possible light . |