Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not entirely a semantic shift , and was to foreshadow a much wider change in attitude to the relationship between the state and the economy , which was to be felt throughout the 1980s . |
| 2 | This was the most fundamental fact about the movies in Britain and America and it was to remain the most important fact throughout the great years of the cinema 's hegemony . |
| 3 | Eventually , in the first days of the new decade , it was to find a more permanent home in the socially acceptable Portobello Road . |
| 4 | The aim of the new Flight gallery was to provide a more cohesive view of the advances in aviation and to make the whole presentation more accessible to the public . |
| 5 | The idea was to provide an even more economical unit to replace the horse . |
| 6 | The official purpose of setting up these institutions was to meet the rapidly growing demand for higher education within further education without prejudicing opportunities for students following non-advanced courses and to make more rational and effective use of the resources available . |
| 7 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 8 | Certainly , George Burnett , weak-willed and indolent , was to suffer the most from the rash ideas and too easy friendships which that summer produced . |
| 9 | One of the desired effects of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission 's Beer Sector Report of 1989 was to encourage a more open and competitive environment . |
| 10 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |
| 11 | One was to answer the commonly held feeling abroad that he and many of his countrymen were anti-Semitic . |
| 12 | At Stirling , James IV was to create an even more magnificent hall , of unprecedented size and great beauty ; and the same king began the palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | The effect of the decision , therefore , was to create an entirely new class of criminal behaviour , dependent on the instructions of a constable who feared a breach of the peace . |
| 14 | The politicization of issues and even of policy-making structures remained considerable : one reason for uniting the postal and telegraph administrations in 1878 was to swamp the allegedly Bonapartist ‘ telegraphist ’ personnel ( 3000 employees ) among the 27,000 postal employees ; often of humble social origins , the latter contained ardent supporters of a republic that assured their social advancement . |
| 15 | Computer technician Barry Daniels , of Epping , Essex , yesterday asked two judges to rule that the shutdown of the unit at Westminster Children 's Hospital , where his son Rhys was to receive a potentially life-saving operation , was unlawful because proper consultation procedures were not followed . |
| 16 | Rhys was to receive the potentially life-saving operation at the unit before its closure . |
| 17 | The ultimate aim was to replace a highly differentiated workforce by single-status , multi-disciplinary process craftsmen responsible for all appropriate ancillary , maintenance and quality inspection functions . |
| 18 | Perhaps recalling General Primo de Rivera 's ill-starred attempt to rule , initially , through an all-military committee , one of Franco 's first steps was to replace the exclusively military Committee for National Defence with a mixed , civilian and military , Technical Committee . |
| 19 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 20 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |
| 21 | In 1974 , at the age of 22 , he joined Somerset , and with Joel Garner was to play a very important part in their one-day successes between 1979 and 1983 . |
| 22 | To call them swine , Baldwin told Sir Cuthbert Headlam in February 1930 , ‘ was to libel a very decent , clean animal ’ . |
| 23 | The answer was to form a more tight-knit operations board consisting of the partners running the regional offices and a separate functional board to deal with broader issues . |
| 24 | The objective was to use a relatively small fission device to trigger-off a thermonuclear reaction of arbitrarily large yield . |
| 25 | The original intention was to use the newly nationalised industries as a vehicle for reflation , on the assumption that the underlying economic situation genuinely justified investment , while private entrepreneurs held off . |
| 26 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 27 | However , Signalman Lovelace of Sparrow Force was to build a remarkably powerful transmitter , even though he had neither electrical testing nor other meters . |
| 28 | The pair changed the name to Vardon and announced that , with City backing , their strategy was to build a conservatively financed leisure group concentrating on mass-market , low-ticket visitor attractions and leisure interests . |
| 29 | He brought with him from England a legendary reputation as an actor manager and his dream was to build the most modern theatre ever seen in Belfast . |
| 30 | The initial approach of the courts was to adopt a highly restrictive interpretation of these provisions , meaning that trifling sums were awarded in costs . |