Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [conj] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wider issues were to show that politicians had blown it , for dragging America into Vietnam , germ warfare , ABM and all those other starting points of peace protesters . |
| 2 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 4 | The house was fall of memories ; but even to call them memories was to imply that Jack had put them behind him ; and he had not . |
| 5 | However , the final poll , after soldiers ' votes had been counted , was to show that Labour had won only 44 seats . |