Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 2 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 3 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 4 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 5 | He was to live on until 1832 , when he died , aged 58 described as being of the Lower Market Place . |
| 6 | Edith was to live on until 1928 , dying in Bath . |
| 7 | The war between them was to drag on until 1364 , a period of some twenty years . |