Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 3 | Its aim was to eliminate by the end of the century tariff barriers between the " Visegrad Three " ( which would consist of four countries after the split of Czechoslovakia ) and to ensure compatibility with European Community ( EC ) and European Economic Area ( EEA ) regulations . |
| 4 | The government announced on Oct. 2 that it was to postpone until the end of 1991 the enactment of a controversial bill which would have allowed Japan to send up to 2,000 troops abroad as part of its contribution to UN peacekeeping forces in Cambodia and elsewhere . |
| 5 | In October 1979 , the company announced that a factory was to close by the end of September 1980 . |
| 6 | The intention was to introduce by the end of 1993 a system , TAURUS , complementing TALISMAN , whereby , once a bargain in fully-paid listed securities was struck , the buyer would become , and the seller , in respect of the shares sold , would cease to be , a member and shareholder . |
| 7 | As we shall see in a later chapter , much of the same reasoning was to recur towards the end of the 1980s in the search for ways of implementing punishment in the community . |
| 8 | He was to travel to the end upon the path marked out for him by National Socialism and the saviour of Germany . |