Example sentences of "was [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 3 | The Committee for the Preservation of Morals was to meet at the house of Mrs Murphy , the wife of the Mayor . |
| 4 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 5 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 6 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 7 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 8 | The Liverpool keeper 's one big mistake was to flap at a Wallace cross , allowing Cantona to head into a empty net and give Leeds a 4-2 advantage with a couple of minutes left . |
| 9 | Many see the Basquiat retrospective as a referendum on the Whitney Museum 's curatorial standards , but just a month before the show was to open at the Whitney , a New York weekly reported that the museum had sought to fire Richard Marshall , the show 's curator , who had spent years preparing the project with Gerard Basquiat and the Robert Miller Gallery . |
| 10 | At the end of the fourth week the players moved to Edinburgh where The Confidential Clerk was to open at the Lyceum on 25 August . |
| 11 | The new musical was to open at the Palace Theatre , Manchester , for three weeks , before moving to the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in London 's West End . |
| 12 | The songs , pulled direct from the John Peel and Dave Jensen sessions , were added to the last two singles and B-sides scattered , with perfect pacing , across a 16-track LP which was to retail at no more than £3.99 ( providing the retailers kept the faith which , largely , they did ) . |
| 13 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 14 | However he assured her that she could control the pain and all she had to do to achieve this was to look at a certain corner of the ward ceiling and the pain would go . |
| 15 | His special trick was to look at the floor a lot . |
| 16 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 17 | Its brief , according to a resolution unanimously agreed at the UN Security Council on March 17 , was to look at the requirements for a future peacekeeping operation and to create " mechanisms to ensure humanitarian aid can get through unhindered " . |
| 18 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 19 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 20 | She was waiting to commence training as a nurse so her life was also heading in a new direction , but she was ill prepared for the grief she was to experience at the loss of the sister who had been so close and influential in her own life . |
| 21 | The procedure was exactly as for Experiment 1 except condition C was to point at a target using the non-preferred hand while wearing prisms , rather than pointing at an auditory target . |
| 22 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 23 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 24 | This phase corresponds to the mid-Victorian press and was to end at the turn of the century with the confirmation of the marketplace and commercialism as the key determinants of the press . |
| 25 | Carlie was to stay at the foster home ‘ until the home situation stabilises ’ . |
| 26 | All he had to do to check on her story was to ask at the pub . |
| 27 | As Mario was to say at the time , though the 78 was obviously a ‘ fantastic ’ car in concept , it was going to take a while to work all the bugs out of it : the braking system was twitchy , the steering too flexible and it was , due to its side-pods , slow on the straights . |
| 28 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 29 | Von Kluck on the right wing was to strike at the French left , through Brussels , Mons and Le Cateau , toward the River Somme near Amiens , while Bülow wheeled south of Liège , up the River Sambre . |
| 30 | Her routine was to rise at a quarter past seven , bath , take a light breakfast and catch an omnibus into the City . |