Example sentences of "was to be " in BNC.
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| 61 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 62 | It was a stiff , headmasterly performance , appropriate to the handing down from the palace of the kingly rules by which the democratic experiment was to be played . |
| 63 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 64 | Its paper was to be presented to a Market Research Society seminar last March when , with three days ' notice , the health department instructed the authors to withdraw it . |
| 65 | The anniversary was to be celebrated with a torchlit procession , military parade and fireworks . |
| 66 | This was to be Boomer 's last appearance in the Ryder Cup , although he was still quite clearly a good enough player to hold his own against the best of the Americans . |
| 67 | He submitted that paragraph 19 was to be construed without regard to paragraph 16(1) . |
| 68 | The second unexpected area of conflict came over the question of who was to be entitled to final cut on the film . |
| 69 | No longer the prop of an unjust social order , the God of the Magnificat was to be found on the side of the poor while the mighty trembled at the prospect of being toppled from their insecure thrones . |
| 70 | Over 80 artists from some 14 nations entered for the new BP Peter Pears Award , each presenting a 22-minute programme representing their talents in opera , oratorio , baroque and 20th-century works ; Britten was to be heard in most contestants ' 20th-century selections . |
| 71 | Her husband , President FW de Klerk announced , was to be released . |
| 72 | Ball 's estrangement from the Salvation Army was to be the secular brass band 's gain . |
| 73 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 74 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
| 75 | The God of the Bible and the Church was to be wholly free from all these . |
| 76 | This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time . |
| 77 | The new latrine in its fairly protected situation , and the newly appointed shithouse clerk was to be a great boost to Commando morale during the days ahead . |
| 78 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 79 | The rumour was going round that a new tax on cattle and horse-ownership was to be introduced . |
| 80 | State investment , rare enough in itself , was earmarked for industry ( in the 1923 national budget less than 5 per cent was to be allocated to agriculture ) . |
| 81 | As was to be the case with far more important orders to the peasantry from the very highest level at the start of collectivization after NEP , bureaucratic delays and excessive central demands soon resulted in comparable excess of zeal at local levels . |
| 82 | The main event on 7 November after the parade was to be a ‘ spectacle ’ in the railway club . |
| 83 | All they could imagine was that some new sort of tax was to be imposed on them . |
| 84 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 85 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 86 | Moscow and Petrograd papers were allowed to continue at the same volume but the rest of the press was to be reduced eventually to 232 papers , 158 of them guberniia and 74 uezd . |
| 87 | Certainly , the Treasury was to be a major battle ground between contending philosophies . |
| 88 | It was agreed that elections would be held in Zimbabwe , despite the activities of various black guerrilla forces led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe , and a constitutional convention was to be held in London . |
| 89 | A close political ally was Airey Neave , a former intelligence officer who was to be murdered by the IRA in the precincts of Westminster . |
| 90 | In his address , Sir Thomas Kennedy spoke of the enormous communications gap that had to be bridged if the Appeal was to be successful , and sought delegates ' help in publicising the Fund and the Appeal especially through the medium of provincial and local newspapers . |