Example sentences of "[noun pl] was to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city — and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems — it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella . |
| 2 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 3 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 4 | The worst of fates was to be a wallflower passed over and rejected . |
| 5 | Spengler 's concept of the alleged unity of European culture and its primary faustian symbols was to be the basis of his ‘ Europe a Nation ’ campaign after the Second World War . |
| 6 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |
| 7 | But in much of the rest of the world , the extension of the railways was to be a characteristic of the period from 1890 to the 1920s . |
| 8 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |