Example sentences of "were soon [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theudebert and Theuderic , however , were soon to fall out , largely , according to Fredegar , at the instigation of their grandmother Brunhild . |
| 2 | War clouds were soon to gather . |
| 3 | During his youth , Barbarossa saw a rapid increase in the number of monasteries , considerable development of learning , scientific and intellectual skills , and the beginning of cathedral schools , which were soon to blossom into universities . |
| 4 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 5 | But they , with other accountants , were soon to leave the search business — which they found ‘ 10% income 90% headache ’ — and the field on the West Coast was left wide open for Korn/Ferry , whose only competitors were Heidrick and Struggles in Los Angeles . |
| 6 | The economic provisions of NEP were soon to act as a slow salve on the material well-being of the peasantry , but even before NEP had begun all political bridges between the centre and a free-thinking periphery had been burnt with the establishment of a one-party system and the elimination of any traces of local independence in the party hierarchy . |
| 7 | Even those Danzigers who felt relief at being removed from the lax and distant hand of Catholic Warsaw were soon to see this as cold comfort when they began to experience Prussian rule . |
| 8 | We were soon to see dragons , fish , giant insects and even trouser legs suspended in mid-air . |
| 9 | The Lerskys were soon to return to Palestine . |
| 10 | Let me see , there would be Mary and Ellen , two older daughters who were soon to move away , and then Neddy , Sidney , George , Dick , Sepp , and eventually Geoffrey . |
| 11 | More seriously , politicians were soon to realize the value of radio and bought air-time to put over their views . |
| 12 | But even if such a promise was made it was not carried out , and the ‘ disinherited ’ were soon to form a powerful group at Edward 's court seeking the renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 13 | Indeed , the Palestinians were soon to wonder whether the Syrians wanted a Palestinian state at all . |
| 14 | But the novels were soon to exhibit an interest in misogyny , and to see a connection between ‘ the old hoo-ha ’ and ‘ the old last end ’ — expressions used by Ormerod and Standish respectively , in Take a girl like you , for sexual intercourse and death . |
| 15 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 16 | Eventually this plan was abandoned in favour of a completely new church and , in Mr Dwyer 's own words : ‘ — while God was pouring out His Spirit and building His spiritual house , a spacious and attractive sanctuary was rising for the accommodation of worshippers who were soon to fill it with songs of praise . ’ |
| 17 | Its shorter publications were becoming available and were soon to include materials of major importance , Break-through to literacy , and Language in use . |
| 18 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 19 | As many children were soon to discover , being taken into a family was no guarantee of happiness . |
| 20 | For this modest Cape , as Magellan and his men were soon to discover , marks the eastern end of ‘ the Strait that shall forever bear his name ’ — the entrance , at long last , to the Mar del Sur . |
| 21 | We were soon to discover that he specialises , not only in deft , on-the-spot sketches , but also in brief pungent descriptions with much use of cunning metaphor . |
| 22 | The Times of April 18 reported that two more student activists , Wang Zhixin and Li Minqi , were soon to stand trial for " counter-revolutionary crimes " . |
| 23 | But two men in the Chelsea directors ' box were soon to show that they enjoy the away game just as much . |
| 24 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 25 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 26 | Morrissey now moved into outspoken areas , possibly as groundwork fro the direction The Smiths were soon to follow . |
| 27 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 28 | This is the backcloth to the dramatic events that were soon to follow . |
| 29 | But that would seem a trifle if a request for something like $150 billion of western aid were soon to appear on the G7 's table . |
| 30 | The impact of ‘ Democracy Wall ’ had heightened expectations for genuine change , however , which were soon to bring many students temporarily out of the classrooms . |