Example sentences of "was [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 2 | Jo Siffert was to go the next year in a non-championship race at Brands Hatch . |
| 3 | One of the earliest projects was to create the first out-patient clinic at St Stephen 's Hospital in London . |
| 4 | The bitch , Rintelna the Chatelaine , was to whelp the first litter born in Australia , having been mated prior to leaving the UK . |
| 5 | This was to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the Marquess of Tavistock , who nearly two years ago was desperately ill , following a mammoth stroke . |
| 6 | This was to mark the tenth anniversary of Roman 's company , with publicity to reflect the wide international market he appeared to operate in . |
| 7 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 8 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 9 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 10 | Later he was to advise the next Lord Petre on planting around a proposed new home and again he wrote to Bartram for plants . |
| 11 | was to get the second hand timber and , and he had a couple of lads off the dole in Mold there , knocking the nails well all he had to do |
| 12 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 13 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 14 | It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year . |
| 15 | Among the many notable prisoners taken was Charles , duke of Orléans , who was to spend the next quarter of a century an honourable captive in England , developing a considerable talent as a poet in both French and English . |
| 16 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 17 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 18 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 19 | Mrs. Norton , whose husband gave the Henley Ladies ' Club the trophy still known today as the Norton Cup , was to become the first Lady Rathcreedan in 1916 . |
| 20 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 21 | In June 1788 Charles Vial , the Frenchman who was to become the first Professor of the London Veterinary College in 1791 , arrived in England with letters of introduction from Pierre-Marie Auguste Broussonet ( 1761–1807 ) to Sir Joseph Banks PRS ( 1743–1820 ) , Samuel Foart Simmons MD , FRS ( 1750–1813 ) and Dr P.D . |
| 22 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 23 | As a result the IDA began what was to become the first step in the desperate local search for a toxic dump site . |