Example sentences of "was [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only weapon in my bid for autonomy was to go on strike . |
| 2 | And the other way of doing it was to go on hire purchase . |
| 3 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 4 | A close associate of Knighton said that one option being considered was to sell on part of his Isle of Man holding company , M K Trafford , through which the offer is being made . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , tragedy struck and the dog was to die on board ship through heat exhaustion . |
| 6 | Southern Railway kept a mule at Spencer Shops whose sole purpose was to get on board a train on Sunday so that a run could be made from Spencer to Goldsboro . |
| 7 | Our first aim was to stay on Reception and licence it , but no one was prepared to do that , ’ says Solowka . |
| 8 | The idea was to capture on film how the countryside was changing as the nation underwent great social and economic change . |
| 9 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |