Example sentences of "was [to-vb] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first duties undertaken by Kajiyama was to observe a police operation in one of Tokyo 's most notorious areas of prostitution , on Sept. 20 , which resulted in the arrest of 45 foreign women who were accused of working as prostitutes . |
| 2 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , Xinhua announced that the China Great Wall Co. was to launch a communications satellite for Arabsat at the end of 1991 . |
| 3 | The basic aim was to create a customs union , with free and equal competition among the Six and a ‘ common external tariff ’ against the rest of the world . |
| 4 | The city centre was cordoned off after fires were discovered in two stores a few hours before the Prime Minister , John Major , was to address a farmers conference 400 yards away . |
| 5 | In that case , Greenwich announced that it was to adopt an admissions policy which , in relation to over-subscribed schools , gave preference to those resident in Greenwich over those resident outside the borough . |
| 6 | The initial goal was to prototype a KBS support environment for workshop based test engineers . |
| 7 | There were all the other brothers and sisters , Edith who was good at arithmetic and sorted things out for all and sundry , David who was to become a police inspector , Hilda and Cassie who delighted in their roguish little brother — threepence here , sixpence there . |