Example sentences of "[pron] was [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 2 | I was to starve for thirty-six hours beforehand , take a powerful laxative and drink plenty of clear fluids ‘ including alcohol if you wish ’ . |
| 3 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 4 | I finished every day mostly at one o'clock and I was to start at half past five the next morning . |
| 5 | I was to work for smelly Perkins for a whole week . |
| 6 | Legislative power was vested in a 50-member High Council of the Republic for an 11-month period of transitional government which was to culminate in contested elections in March 1991 . |
| 7 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 8 | So began in 1950 the first season of the Great Casterton Training School , which was to continue until 1958 . |
| 9 | A pro-Nasserite revolution occurred in the Yemen in September 1962 , which was to lead to Egyptian-backed rebellions in the Aden Protectorates and later in Aden itself . |
| 10 | Ungar 's experiments were done before other research — which was to lead in due course to the opening up of a major new branch of neuropharmacology and to the making of some very distinguished scientific reputations — had revealed how important many peptides were in the brain . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 12 | Fredegar records the death of Guntram , apparently in 592 , and Childebert 's succession to the kingdom of Burgundy , thus uniting it to the east Frankish realm , and establishing a political axis which was to last until 613 . |
| 13 | A vicious colonial war then broke out which was to last until 1954 , with increasing costs to the French in lives and money . |
| 14 | This was the beginning of a family association with the School which was to last until 1942 , when his son , who succeeded him in 1898 , retired . |
| 15 | Not only did diplomatic services grow slowly in size : there was also none of the inflation of titles and wholesale upgrading of missions which was to develop after 1918 and still more after 1945 . |
| 16 | Thus , he set up his own windsurfing and surfing business at Whitesands which was to run for 2 years . |
| 17 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 18 | In Cornwall , which was to grow into one of Methodism 's early strongholds , the teachings of John Wesley were absorbed only through a haze of superstitious beliefs and practices . |
| 19 | Several weapons systems received an increased budget allocation , however , including research spending on the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) which was to increase by 22 per cent to $4,650 million , almost all of which would be used to investigate the possible deployment of small , space-based missile interceptors known as " Brilliant Pebbles " . |
| 20 | They formed the basis of the LM method which was to follow after another five years painstaking work . |
| 21 | What was destined to be the last series of operations of the desert war was another of Stirling 's grand concepts , intended to tie in with Montgomery 's attack on Tripoli and beyond into Tunisia which was to start on 15 January 1943 . |
| 22 | A degree of standardization was , however , attempted with the sample , which was to consist of those cases ( whether new referrals or existing cases ) for whom an assessment was made for one or other of three specific types of service provision : residential care ( ‘ Part 4 ’ in Scotland ) , respite or short stay care , and day care . |
| 23 | The LEA grant-aid for courses of only £45 left the district with a substantial deficit , a position which was to recur in later years up to 1940 when the LEA approved a block grant for the WEA to meet anticipated deficits on courses . |
| 24 | They lost touch for some time with Flora , their first presiding deity , but even she was to reappear in another context , another life . |
| 25 | She was to leave behind three of the youngest children , the last a ‘ sickly babe ’ born less than six months before their departure ; they were to take with them only their eldest son , John Henry , who was by then seven years old , and Mrs Gould 's nephew , Henry Coxen , whom the couple had taken on when his father died in 1825 . |
| 26 | Well , she was to dance for another twenty years . |
| 27 | It was a skill she needed to master if she was to drop into occupied France . |
| 28 | ( She was to marry on 3rd February 1819 Mark Mayson of Keswick , and became the mother of W. H. Mayson of Manchester ) . |
| 29 | Between the study and the library was the small spiral staircase which led directly to the Emperor 's apartments , a staircase she was to climb on 3 September 1870 , clutching in her hand the telegram announcing the capitulation at Sedan and crying out in grief at the horror of it . |
| 30 | Her journey had already been fixed , as she was to travel with two of their Salzburg friends . |