Example sentences of "was [adv] to have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night I visited the Queen Mary and Westfield college in the Mile End road and I was told that it was soon to have a level of computers of almost one work station for every six students . |
| 2 | For Malta however an event of much lesser magnitude was soon to have an effect infinitely greater on the immediate concern of the defenders . |
| 3 | He returned to Basle in April to find the hopes he had left there come to nothing : he was not to have a philosophy chair ( nor Rohde his own chair ) , and so he was obliged to remain , at least nominally , a philologist . |
| 4 | According to press reports the Front had determined that the " leader " was not to have a power of veto on legislation voted by the Assembly , but would be commander-in-chief of the " unified armed forces " and would direct any negotiations with the Iraqi government in Baghdad . |
| 5 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 6 | A Scottish woman whose son was about to have an operation had a dream the night before it was due . |
| 7 | Any smile she might have thought was about to have an airing , however , did not make it . |