Example sentences of "was to be [art] " in BNC.

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1 What was good for catholics was also good for protestants , and Ireland was to be no exception .
2 Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor .
3 There was to be no eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation this time .
4 It was to be no bigger than its predecessor and retain the family shape .
5 For Kylie , however there was to be no looking back .
6 What prompted blunter speaking we do not know , but there was to be no lack of plainness in the English memorandum drawn up on the 31st .
7 There was to be no escape .
8 But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time .
9 Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year .
10 Furthermore , there was to be no ‘ promiscuous dancing ’ , which meant men and women … together !
11 There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch .
12 There was to be no ‘ acting tough or noisy ill-discipline ’ ; toughness was to be reserved for the enemy .
13 There was to be no embarkation leave , of course , because of the obvious necessity of preserving secrecy about the date of the invasion of north-west Europe .
14 There was to be no opposition , the Syrians said .
15 Sandison felt relieved that there was to be no pursuit of his reasons for coming to Naples .
16 The Smith residence was a plush , elderly house set amongst trees and shrubs off the road ; the lights were on and there was to be no deliverance .
17 There was to be no quibbling , just , ‘ How much ? ’ for she had made up her mind that , no matter what it cost , she was going to have this outfit .
18 But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees .
19 There was to be no let-up for more than three months .
20 Here was to be no outside elements , no objects or empirical fact or emotion ; it was a world of the mind , stark , pure , austere and coldly beautiful .
21 There was to be no heroic , story-book recovery .
22 It was to be no insular backslapping occasion where favourite cars were chosen by the magazine 's staff , but a hard-headed look at the industry with independent judges outnumbering Autocar & Motor people by three to one .
23 Unfortunately there was to be no 200 metres event , but there were some invitation events scheduled including a 60 metres , and having won that event at the Cosford Games I thought that I would be selected .
24 He gave no reason , just reiterated that there was to be no 200 metres .
25 But there was to be no rest .
26 There was to be no limping between two opinions .
27 There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings .
28 Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction .
29 If there was to be no viewing of the remains , the coffin was at once covered with plain or waxed cambric , glued and gimped into place .
30 For Walt Disney 's child-star Bobby Driscoll from Song of the South , there was to be no long-term future .
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