Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it was to " in BNC.

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1 The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed .
2 If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man .
3 I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ?
4 Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured .
5 Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised .
6 Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised .
7 He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea .
8 But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it .
9 It was therefore at Florence that agreement between Greeks and Latins was reached — though again it was to be of short duration .
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