Example sentences of "was [to-vb] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 2 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 3 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 4 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 5 | But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window . |
| 6 | Keke was to try another year , slipping into McLaren in Lauda 's wake , because it is always worthwhile if you think you can win . |
| 7 | Perhaps the answer was to write another television play . |
| 8 | In this instance it was to create another car access route to the Murrayfield Stadium for the visit of Billy Graham , the crowd gathering evangelist . |
| 9 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 10 | Her dearest wish was to live another couple of years and see Neil Kinnock as prime minister . |
| 11 | Soon after my operation , I was to have another experience of this ignorance . |
| 12 | A colleague of ours described the reactions of her four-year-old son to the news that his mother was to have another baby . |
| 13 | So Charlotte was to have another baby ? |
| 14 | On Saturday morning the pilot was asked by an acquaintance if he would fly him to Biggin Hill where the acquaintance was to collect another aeroplane . |
| 15 | Ormonde was to make another attempt on the West Country , being promised by the Spaniards 5000 infantry , 1000 cavalry , ten cannon and arms for the 15,000 English Jacobites expected to rally to the cause . |
| 16 | But to go there was to enter another world . |