Example sentences of "was [to-vb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bell continued to hang there , the rope passing through apertures in the ceilings of the top , first and ground floors into a poky cell which was to double as cloakroom and bellringer 's room . |
| 4 | The rump of Die-hard support around the Boswell publishing concerns was to survive as part of an underground tradition . |
| 5 | All my friends and playmates were Indian and , since my father 's job was to act as guardian to a Maharajah some five years older than me , I looked upon Bahadur as an older brother . |
| 6 | The Chaplain had been so injured in combat that his best continuing contribution to his chapter was to act as escort and religious awakener to young new recruits . |
| 7 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 8 | The Abingdon factory was to close as part of cutbacks being made by British Leyland . |