Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Chelsea were to proceed with the ground-share as it stands , the legal position of the development would be in doubt . ’ |
| 2 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 3 | The airport brings major economic benefits to the North West as we were to discover with the help of our guide John Kirby . |
| 4 | Without Gooch , the victim of food poisoning the night before the game , much depended on Mike Gatting if England were to escape with a draw following India 's first innings run-riot of 560 for six declared . |
| 5 | The story went around that once , when he was seriously ill , he was advised by his doctors that it would improve his chances of survival if he were to sleep with a woman . |
| 6 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 7 | The activities singled out were to do with the use of ratepayers ' money to promote certain ideas . |
| 8 | It might be best if you and not one of us were to deal with the boy . |
| 9 | Assistant catering manager Ronnie McLay said : ‘ A short time before the hungry crowds descended , catering manager Sid Ashford and I gave Jim , Lorna and Agnes a big surprise : they were to deal with the barbecue while we acted as runners . |
| 10 | Sidacai and the remaining Altun who were to ride with the command had arrived several days earlier , but since his return he had spoken to none of them . |
| 11 | Yet it was the only way to go if the labels they represent were to compete with the might of the majors . |
| 12 | They were to choose and they were to live with the consequences of their choice . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) The purchaser may consider that given the financial standing of the vendor there would be little prospect of recovery from the vendor for undisclosed liabilities of the company even if the purchaser were to succeed with a warranty claim against the vendor . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 16 | The other option was to proceed with the reading , trying , with more and more effort , to find a resolution . |
| 17 | Philby 's job was to liaise with the FBI and CIA on intelligence matters . |
| 18 | He said it was to go with the wagon to Ramsey , and we put it in among the logs , well wedged in . |
| 19 | Worse was to come with the news that the gentleman had brought no valet , his usual man having fallen ill . |
| 20 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 21 | Richard Walter Jenkins Junior was to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor , yet keep the common touch , be courted by Presidents and praised by the greatest Prime Minister of the century . |
| 22 | An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status . |
| 23 | A " new economic structure " would be established , centred on the planned state-owned sector with the market playing a subsidiary role ; price reform was to be carried out " in an active and prudent way " ; and " guidance planning " was to increase with the reduction of mandatory planning . |
| 24 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 25 | The purpose of the Unit was to deal with the problem of run down council estates in urban areas , offering technical advice and assistance on the management of such estates . |
| 26 | The first task was to deal with the strikers , and Aung San achieved this at considerable cost . |
| 27 | It was to do with a smell and some music and a steel thing swinging out and back , out and back , like the pendulum in the story by Edgar Alan poe . |
| 28 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 29 | The reason she said I was anorexic was to do with the proportion of body fat I had lost . |
| 30 | Probably it was to do with the animals after all . |