Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she was to indulge in escapism , surely here would be as good a place as any ? |
| 2 | As it was , the temptation was to continue in order to demonstrate success through staying power . |
| 3 | If it was to continue in existence the ILP had to reach some agreement , to find some acceptable compromise between " Unity " and " independence " . |
| 4 | The American reaction in Seoul was to emphasise to Washington the dangers of south Korea following a path already being trodden in eastern Europe . |
| 5 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 6 | The other physician in attendance was Larrey , son of Napoleon I 's great surgeon-general , who in 1864 was to diagnose with accuracy the cause of Napoleon III 's declining health — a kidney stone . |
| 7 | The route was to proceed along Thicket Road and Beckenham Road as far as the Penge/Beckenham boundary . |
| 8 | Coleman was to proceed to Israel , cross into Lebanon , escorted by the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army , and from there drive to Baabda under the protection of pro-Aoun elements in the Druze faction . |
| 9 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 10 | For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma . |
| 11 | My immediate response was to agree with Halliwell , ’ said Ken . |
| 12 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 13 | My answer to this was to appeal to Darwin 's theory of natural selection : Only those individuals who drew the appropriate conclusions about the world around them would be likely to survive and reproduce . |
| 14 | Her first reaction was to appeal to Greville to get her out of it . |
| 15 | Pamela Brown , who was to co-star with Gielgud , remembered saying ‘ the girl but not the boy ’ . |
| 16 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 17 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 18 | A favourite comparison among the book 's enthusiasts was to see in Uncle Tom a ‘ Christ figure ’ . |
| 19 | Later on , Brawner was to go down hill , working on low-grade cars for low-grade drivers , but back then |
| 20 | With time , the intimate relationship described above was to go through periods of stress and change . |
| 21 | erm well would , w w would anybody want to advocate that , yes , the option was to go for collectivization fairly quickly ? |
| 22 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |
| 23 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 24 | The answer was to go to Britain , to talk to the Thames Water Authority , whose success in reviving the fetid Thames won world renown . |
| 25 | ‘ When Bonds told me they 'd succeeded in finding you , and sent me a description that tallied exactly , my first impulse was to go to England and strangle you with my bare hands . |
| 26 | Almost his last public engagement was to go to London in October 1947 and attend the unveiling of the statue of King George V in Old Palace Yard . |
| 27 | ‘ But your original plan was to go to Ibiza . |
| 28 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 29 | He was to go to Brighton for a fortnight in another play , in 1950 , A Phoenix Too Frequent by Christopher Fry , whose well-wrought and ‘ difficult ’ verse dramas had so unexpectedly caught the taste of the public . |
| 30 | Just for the sake of argument of course — * IF * Rocky was to go to Scousers , who would we be willing to see come our way ? ? |