Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest were employed at present between Stavros and Episkopi , loading and transporting the casks to the warehouses to await the arrival of the all-important galley which was to take them to Venice . |
| 2 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 3 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 4 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 5 | Thus developed in Lebanon a pattern of events which was to recreate itself in increasingly savage form over the coming years . |
| 6 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 7 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 8 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |
| 9 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 10 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 11 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 12 | If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road . |