Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His advice was to go immediately to a Casualty unit at a local hospital . |
| 2 | The very first week we ever tried it ( just after the sports hall had been built ) , the instruction was to go straight to the sports hall when the bell rang for the start of school . |
| 3 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 4 | The Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement of this period was just one sign among many of growing public discontent which was to lead eventually to the events of February 1934 . |
| 5 | The resultant economics was to lead directly to the Renaissance , and thence to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 6 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 7 | The essence of doublethink was to hold absolutely to the given motive but also simultaneously to its contradiction : that is after all what dialectical thinking is all about . |
| 8 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |