Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 2 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |
| 3 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 4 | All that the king-duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . |
| 5 | The plan was to return to the same group of airfields , on the assumption that the garrisons would hardly expect them back quite so soon . |
| 6 | Elizabeth was to return to the same church for her own wedding five years later ; she and young Benjamin Titford were married there on 24 January 1808 . |