Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 2 | Suppressing the Poles had taken less than a year , but the pacification of Muslims in the mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian was to continue beyond the end of the reign . |
| 3 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 4 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world . |
| 6 | Fighting of this sort was to continue in the marsh area , but it was not until 1986 that Iraq was able to recover more of Majnun . |
| 7 | The other option was to proceed with the reading , trying , with more and more effort , to find a resolution . |
| 8 | But , all along , our main aim was to plan for the future . |
| 9 | Among their achievements was to agree upon the size of a standard English foot . |
| 10 | His first choice was to remain leader on his own terms , his second to go , and his third , last , and unacceptable one was to cling to the position on the terms of others . |
| 11 | What we pressed him to do in Committee was to include in the Bill power to set up a funding council . |
| 12 | Their legislative response was to include in the Act ways to allow some children to be exempted from the full curriculum . |
| 13 | If democratic unity inside the movement was impossible , the only course was to appeal to the democracy of the borough ( SE 19 January 18 ) . |
| 14 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 15 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 16 | He said it was to go with the wagon to Ramsey , and we put it in among the logs , well wedged in . |
| 17 | Men were designated by superior officers as being lazy , inefficient , absolutely worthless , and whose only object in life was to go to the pay table on Wednesdays to receive their pay . |
| 18 | One way of raising loans was to go to the market , paying interest at the high rates then demanded . |
| 19 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 20 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 21 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 22 | His plan for that was to go into the restaurant car park and allow enough time for the other car to clear the fuel service area , then fill his own tank and give chase . |
| 23 | The proposed closure was confirmed just twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 24 | The closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 25 | The announcement was confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal said the pit was to go into the review procedure . |
| 26 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 27 | What she really wanted was to go on the pill , but as her doctor was a close family friend , she could n't face asking him . |
| 28 | Then I thought , well , I 'll have to tackle him somehow , so the best way , rain or no rain , was to go out the back way and take him from behind . ’ |
| 29 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 30 | It was appropriate warm-up garb , as the Run Barbados Marathon was to go from the point of this historical settlement ( established 1627 ) to Sam Lord 's Castle , built with the profits from a wrecker 's booty . |