Example sentences of "was to be another " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 2 | It was hardly flattering , with its account of the miserable climate — the vehement cold and the winds — and the forbidding landscape , with many rough mountains ( for it was to be another two centuries before Rousseau was to alert the attention of Europe to the beauty of mountain scenery ) . |
| 3 | In fact , it was to be another two years before the situation changed radically . |
| 4 | It was to be another three months before the war finally ended , on VJ Day . |
| 5 | For , without doubt , there was to be another visit — and many more to come . |
| 6 | However , it was to be another fourteen years before the first permanent regional transmitter was opened in Mbeya in 1972 . |
| 7 | A tolerable degree of success resulted from these early attempts at administration on the European continent ; in Ireland , as we know to our cost , it was to be another story . |
| 8 | Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber . |
| 9 | But it was to be another 20 years before the changes had marked effect . |
| 10 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 11 | Clearwell Castle , Gloucestershire ( c .1728 ) is a unique building , with no affinity either to the contemporary medievalizing modes of Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor [ qq.v. ] or to the subsequent rococo Gothic of William Kent [ q.v. ] ; while Inveraray Castle , by contrast , was to be another immensely influential creation , standing at the head of a whole series of castle-style houses throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | It was to be another twelve months before the inhabitants of the valley , including the people settled here at Halling , were to see again the Roman Armies , with the local menfolk Possibly among the British force opposing them . |
| 13 | Who could this be ? she wondered rather crossly , not having realised that there was to be another woman there . |
| 14 | It was only nine years since Charles Sturt had returned , starving and almost blind , from discovering the Darling and the Murray Rivers ; it was to be another five years before he ventured towards the centre of Australia in search of that mythical inland sea . |
| 15 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |