Example sentences of "was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | They would n't know that his trip had been sponsored by the Socialist Labor Party of North America and his time , if he stuck to his commitments , was to be all booked up . |
| 32 | The first was to be run on strictly business lines , while the second needed financial support . |
| 33 | The set was to be maintained by BR at Carlisle Upperby depot under contract . |
| 34 | The new box was to replace thirty-three existing signalboxes and to control the line between Norwood Junction and Brighton , including Gatwick Airport which , from May 1980 , was to be the terminus of a new semi-fast cross-country service from Reading ( via Guildford and Redhill ) . |
| 35 | Similarly the artist Goncharova 's original gorgeously coloured designs for traditional Russian wedding costumes were made austere in keeping with Nijinska 's demands for simplicity even though Les Noces was to be danced sur les pointes . |
| 36 | For the next 138 years the Brick Lane brewery was to be run exclusively by members of these three families , the Hanburys , Buxtons and Pryors . |
| 37 | It was to be a memorable trip in so many different ways . |
| 38 | If Moby became mildly excited , or interested in another dog , he was to be allowed forward on the extendable lead to meet it . |
| 39 | It was to be topical and polemical , and among other things a direct challenge to Fathers and Children . |
| 40 | This was to be expected given the experience and personalities involved such as Morse , Thomson , Field , Bright and Brunel . |
| 41 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 42 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 43 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 44 | From a different position , independently arrived at and much less troubling , the animus was to be shared lifelong by Robert Graves . |
| 45 | Louis Untermeyer , Robert Frost 's correspondent who was to be an influential anthologist , wrote of Poems ( The Freeman , 30 June 1920 ) that ‘ Eliot cares more for his art than he does for his attitudes ’ ; and that ‘ the exaltation which is the very breath of poetry — that combination of tenderness and toughness — is scarcely ever present in Eliot 's lines ’ . |
| 46 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 47 | This was in The Little Review for May 1919 , where Williams was taking issue with praise of Eliot by one of Pound 's British friends , Edgar Jepson ; but Williams 's hostility to British culture ran deeper than that , and was to be a permanent feature of his outlook . |
| 48 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |
| 49 | In essence , though , it was to be ‘ a play about modern Europe and the peace we 're living in ’ . |
| 50 | We actively desired an ever closer union of the European peoples , but it was not laid down how and when this was to be achieved . |
| 51 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 52 | Mr Porras , considered a chieftain of the Medellin cocaine cartel , was arrested on Thursday in the northern town of Tulcan , about 10 miles from the Colombian border , and was to be handed over to Colombian authorities ‘ as a show of Ecuador 's support ’ for the drug crackdown , an Ecuadorean spokesman said . |
| 53 | Even then , however , this fact was to be obscured . |
| 54 | Thus the Protestants preserved their future , although it was to be one which mimicked , in smaller fashion , the tragedy of Lebanon . |
| 55 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 56 | After listening to Mr Lightman 's allegations , Lord Donaldson said that if Mr Oliver 's affidavit was to be believed then The Mail on Sunday had acted in ‘ a wholly hypocritical way . ’ |
| 57 | Despite his busy schedule , he made time to visit the conference ‘ Geordie night ’ — a gathering of north eastern MPs and activists — and was to be found one evening at the Brighton Trade Union and Labour Club with his friend Michael Elliot , a political comedian with whom he toured the coalfields during the 1984-85 pits strike . |
| 58 | US doubts were redoubled by news that the coup was to be led by Major Giraldi , a close associate of the Panamanian military dictator . |
| 59 | Weill correctly perceived that the voice of the American nation was to be found in the musical , but as this form commanded no intellectual respect , the musical establishment has ever since accused him of selling out politically as well as musically . |
| 60 | Red tile set on edge was to be used for the centrepiece , Portland stone for the surround , brown pebble paving for an infill , blue and white pebbles to make a star design , white marble for the path through the pergola . |