Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England the custom was still to rely on pew rents and on subscriptions being paid directly to the chapel . |
| 2 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 3 | Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities . |
| 4 | Iran was also to co-operate on oil exploration and refining with Turkmenistan , whose offshore oil extraction in the Caspian sea was suffering disruption because of shortages of hitherto centrally supplied materials . |
| 5 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 6 | On one occasion he was about to go on board a ship that had just anchored when unforeseen business detained him . |
| 7 | Murad II was about to go on campaign , however , and in his haste gave Hocazade only a provincial kadilik , that of Kestel near Bursa . |
| 8 | On 9 January 1957 he told the Cabinet that he was about to resign on health grounds . |
| 9 | She looked as if she was about to walk on stage rather than be interviewed by detectives from New Scotland Yard . |
| 10 | I looked at the paper , and realised that a new comedy show was about to start on Channel 4 . |