Example sentences of "[conj] was to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of his small and snake-like frame weaving through packed defences virtually established the image of the tiny and recalcitrant Scottish forward , a mantle that was to be worn with tetchy pride by successors like Willie Henderson , Jimmy Johnstone , Gordon Strachan , David Speedie and Mo Johnston . |
| 2 | Historicity is a mode of knowledge for some societies but can not ipso facto claim to be the fundamental basis of knowledge for all of them — a point that was to be re-emphasized by Foucault in The Order of Things . |
| 3 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 4 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 5 | That is one version : another is that Arnoux was using Nguyen as a police spy , a charge that was to be made again and again . |
| 6 | He felt like a potato in the soil dreaming of the vodka that was to be made of it . |
| 7 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 8 | It was felt that such speed limits were not practical over the wide area that was to be covered by the experiment , and that it would be better to scrap such treatment of individual streets and instead integrate such areas into a widespread system of 30 km/h streets . |
| 9 | On the other hand , he received , even in infancy , the opposition that was to be repeated throughout his life , ending with crucifixion . |
| 10 | And anything that was to be ruled out of order or they did it . |
| 11 | The remainder of Cynthia 's visit was spent in supporting Dorothy 's arm while she wrote a letter that was to be given to the solicitor — a Mr Graham Lytham of Messrs Granby , Hemingford and Bowles — and handed in person to Dorothy 's son when he received his gift . |
| 12 | He exulted in the triumph of the new order now established in Germany and the new justice that was to be applied to his racial and cultural antagonists . |
| 13 | The whole sorry enterprise generated a cynicism that was to be heightened by the Watergate scandal , which emerged as the tragedy of Vietnam was moving to its last stages ( p. 104 ) . |
| 14 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 15 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 16 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion . |
| 17 | According to de Lattre , France had spent too much blood and treasure for the Vietnamese to expect the sort of independence that was to be found in the British Commonwealth . |
| 18 | Now , Paul is addressing a group — and that group is the colony of heaven that was to be found in Ephesus . |
| 19 | FIRST CHRISTMAS : Rachel and baby Alex at Christmas in 1989 … happiness that was to be shattered by a madman |
| 20 | Everywhere there was a new spirit of intellectual enquiry , a spirit that was to be associated not with the old monasteries but with new centres of learning and of study in the towns and connected more with secular masters than with monks . |
| 21 | The actual pension that was to be provided , about a quarter of average earnings , was rather modest in comparison to the pensions provided in most other Western European states . |
| 22 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 23 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 24 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 25 | With the amount of work that was to be dealt with during the coming months his chances of getting away from the hospital much before eight or nine any evening were very slight . |
| 26 | Some thought this a better idea to using the Henly legacy — but it was the legacy that was to be used after all , as opposition to selling land mounted . |
| 27 | This second study differed only in that during initial training the subjects received conditioning trials with a different stimulus ( a light ) in the context that was to be used for the test . |
| 28 | However , the first working-class terraced houses were already being built on Everton Road , a street that was to be described in 1875 as ‘ a dense thoroughfare of a somewhat shabby and second rate character ’ . |
| 29 | In connection with the Festival of Britain Exhibition that was to be held at South Bank in 1951 , some major road works were carried out between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Station , streets in that area being made ‘ one way ’ at the same time . |
| 30 | It recommended that Section 2 be replaced by a new Act that would define more narrowly the information that was to be protected ; restricted categories would cover confidential material about defence , foreign affairs and currency reserves , information concerning law enforcement and information provided for the government by an individual or private concern . |