Example sentences of "was [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , at around 3am one Sunday in 1967 pump man , Willie Baxter , was detailed to go through the tunnels from St Enochs to Bridge Street Station where he was to attend to a tank located beneath the stairs . |
| 2 | His first choice was to remain leader on his own terms , his second to go , and his third , last , and unacceptable one was to cling to the position on the terms of others . |
| 3 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 4 | If democratic unity inside the movement was impossible , the only course was to appeal to the democracy of the borough ( SE 19 January 18 ) . |
| 5 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 6 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |
| 7 | He was to go to a hotel where arrangements would be made for him to meet Meehan . |
| 8 | And the other method was to go to the menus and choose , file , admin link refresh . |
| 9 | Men were designated by superior officers as being lazy , inefficient , absolutely worthless , and whose only object in life was to go to the pay table on Wednesdays to receive their pay . |
| 10 | The second , even greater and more prolonged misfortune , was to go to the USA , where the agency she worked for had their head office . |
| 11 | From his moneys , each school was to pay a master £10 per annum and forty shillings was to go to the trustees to cover expenses of their meetings . |
| 12 | One way of raising loans was to go to the market , paying interest at the high rates then demanded . |
| 13 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 14 | I later learned that , when they went off together in that fashion , it was to go to the pictures . |
| 15 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 16 | At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) . |
| 17 | The Centre was composed of 26 individuals , and was to report to the HCS president and to " initiate actions when contraventions of human rights are noticed or brought to its attention " . |
| 18 | His final task was to report to the paymaster 's office and receive his last pay packet and travel voucher before relinquishing the King 's shilling . |
| 19 | was to come to an agreement with the Conservative group because in my view that budget was better than the one put forward by the Labour . |
| 20 | It was a great regret to me that our partnership was to come to an end . |
| 21 | He was also proud to announce that the Barnes Wallis Collection was to come to the Museum and would make a major exhibition . |
| 22 | So Lilian was informed that she was to come to the dentist for an examination . |
| 23 | Portugal 's overriding concern in late 1989 and early 1990 was to adjust to the implications of changes in Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels . |
| 26 | Thus , if a merger was to lead to the creation of a dominant position and a consequent restriction of competition , this could arguably be classed as an abuse . |
| 27 | His sole task was to listen to a speech made by his master in reply to a short debate . |
| 28 | Our punishment was to listen to the teacher read Keats 's " Lamia " aloud . |
| 29 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 30 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |