Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 2 | The River Lea forming the eastern boundary of the metropolis provided good communication , ample supplies of water , and motive power for the mills , distilleries and calico industries that had settled in West Ham previously , and was to continue in that role . |
| 3 | This system was to continue in some form right up until the present day , through wars and periods of anarchy , even surviving long periods where powerful Emperors manipulated the elective body in the interests of their own family . |
| 4 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 5 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 6 | It had been anticipated they would be operating mainly among the trees surrounding the estate , so the object was to go for maximum noise and shock effect while inflicting the least injuries possible . |
| 7 | What he did was to go to Holy Trinity Church and look at the parish records where he found that his parents ' wedding date was also May — the 27th . |
| 8 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 9 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 10 | Mr Trew believes his crime was to go on local TV to protest about the grim prospects for his hospitals . |
| 11 | One of the main aims during conservation was to restore to original condition of all areas of the aircraft that were visible , including the interior structure underneath access panels , undercarriage bays , stowage areas etc . |
| 12 | Representatives from West Berlin were allowed to attend as ‘ observers ’ but Berlin was to remain under four-power occupation , legally separate from the rest of Germany . |
| 13 | The question of the sort of relations between journalists and politicians which could be considered proper was to remain of great importance in determining the changing role of the press . |
| 14 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 15 | Wanted on corruption charges , he was to remain in Brazilian custody until extradition proceedings were completed . |
| 16 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |
| 17 | A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed , unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion . |
| 18 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 19 | From 1917 onwards , however , the educational system became the chosen battle-ground where the child/adolescent Nizan was to struggle for personal identity and stability . |
| 20 | He concluded that Thorp was likely to be the first of British Nuclear Fuel 's ( BNFL ) projects to be closed if the company was to come under financial pressure . |
| 21 | For this reason , and at a time of less genial moods , the Report was to come under severe criticism . |
| 22 | Extra revenue was to come from higher telephone and unemployment insurance charges , but the cost of unification was still expected to increase the public-sector deficit above the DM140,000 million ( approximately US$94 , 580 million ) projected in December 1990 [ see p. 37904 ; for end-January rise in Federal Bank discount rate see p. 37978 ] . |
| 23 | We met our new lecturer Mr H.B. Acton of the London School of Economics who was to lecture in Social Philosophy . |
| 24 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 25 | However , neither of these procedures recommended themselves to the early survey researchers , such as Bowley ; his procedure was to compromise between administrative convenience and representativeness by using more than one stage of sampling . |
| 26 | It was made available by Harold Wilson , who was to exit in identical fashion in 1970 . |
| 27 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 28 | Under Sole 's command Scotland won 14 times , and when he took over from Finlay Calder as captain in 1989 he continued a sequence that was to lead to another record : 13 successive victories at Murrayfield . |
| 29 | The involvement of the West Indies in the war created a profound change in the outlook of its people , that was to lead to growing criticism of the colonial government . |
| 30 | Ungar 's experiments were done before other research — which was to lead in due course to the opening up of a major new branch of neuropharmacology and to the making of some very distinguished scientific reputations — had revealed how important many peptides were in the brain . |