Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Later on , Brawner was to go down hill , working on low-grade cars for low-grade drivers , but back then |
| 9 | erm well would , w w would anybody want to advocate that , yes , the option was to go for collectivization fairly quickly ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And now Artemis was to go to tea downstairs with her father . |
| 13 | Hence half of the common lands was to go to war veterans and the propertyless . |
| 14 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 15 | My original career intention was to go into farm management and I went to agricultural college . |
| 16 | It was to go into effect at noon on Friday , giving the commanders a chance to disengage their forces and the political leaders 48 hours to work on a settlement . |
| 17 | My only weapon in my bid for autonomy was to go on strike . |
| 18 | And the other way of doing it was to go on hire purchase . |
| 19 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 20 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 21 | The thing she needed least in the world at this moment was to fall in love with a steward . |
| 22 | There was also the anxiety of discovering where I was to sit in chapel ; then I had to learn the names and whereabouts of the different houses and of the scattered playing fields . |
| 23 | Tyrone was to search for evidence of further concealed Coal Measures . |
| 24 | But whereas Hitchcock was to thrive in business selling a vast number of spinets , of which a great many survive , William Smith would be quite forgotten but for the chance survival of this one harpsichord . |
| 25 | Edward Kirk was to remain as Headmaster at Leeds until his death , and was to see his school grow from a small class of 6 pupils on a half-day basis into a fully-fledged school taking in boarders and day scholars with a roll of over 100 children , with a reputation second to none . |
| 26 | This new fashion for dressing a corpse was to remain in vogue for the next fifty years . |
| 27 | And it did not mention a fixed life-span , with provision for renewal or renegotiation : the Treaty was to remain in force for ‘ an unlimited period ’ . |
| 28 | In November 1947 they had issued a statutory order ( which was to remain in force until July 1950 ) limiting all new orders for turbo-alternators for the home market to sets of 30MW capacity ( with prewar standard steam conditions of 600psi and 850°F ) and 60MW sets ( with more advanced steam conditions of 900psi and 900°F ) . |
| 29 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 30 | Drawn up by a panel of civilian and military experts , the charter was to remain in force for a 30-month interim period , at the end of which a referendum would be held on a new constitution for Chad . |