Example sentences of "[ex0] was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 32 | There was to be no let-up for more than three months . |
| 33 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |
| 34 | There was to be the usual share of pain and difficulties which all families face : nursing sick children and elderly parents , for instance ; financial problems in the early days , coping with children 's temperamental difficulties and problems at school . |
| 35 | There was to be a Prayer Group established at Westminster Abbey . |
| 36 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 37 | There was to be no heroic , story-book recovery . |
| 38 | Ashton in Lancashire , and urged Manager Ronnie Rooke to sign him — there was to be no doubting the quality of Mr Slade 's judgement on this occasion , as Palace fans of the early 1950s will agree . |
| 39 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 40 | There was to be a term of solitary confinement for each prisoner to bring his brain into ‘ the highest state of susceptibility for receiving moral and religious impressions ’ . |
| 41 | Unfortunately there was to be no 200 metres event , but there were some invitation events scheduled including a 60 metres , and having won that event at the Cosford Games I thought that I would be selected . |
| 42 | He gave no reason , just reiterated that there was to be no 200 metres . |
| 43 | However , there was to be a significant change as the convoy journeyed further north . |
| 44 | After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into . |
| 45 | But there was to be no rest . |
| 46 | There was to be a very full programme of lectures on the Saturday , and a formal dinner , so no doubt people were getting a good night 's sleep in readiness . |
| 47 | There was to be only one preview before the first night . |
| 48 | Explicit in the design of the projects was the attempt to achieve these aims without diverting traffic to other areas — in other words there was to be a genuine experiment in calming existing traffic in situ , not simply exporting the problems to other districts . |
| 49 | For , without doubt , there was to be another visit — and many more to come . |
| 50 | There was to be no limping between two opinions . |
| 51 | If there was to be a severe winter , George hoped that he would see the warning signs early enough to anticipate it . |
| 52 | Among those who voted against it were some closeted gays : if there was to be a purge , they did not wish to be among the victims . |
| 53 | They were to tutor the child who refused to attend school , but there was to be more to it than that . |
| 54 | There was to be no paddling around in the shallow waters for this man , Ruth thought . |
| 55 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 56 | At each stage there was to be a reshuffle of cars in depôts , so that the worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first and the better cars from a depôt closing were moved to another one . |
| 57 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 58 | There was to be a Consumer Credit Commissioner with wide powers and many responsibilities , including administration of a comprehensive licensing system . |
| 59 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 60 | If there was to be no viewing of the remains , the coffin was at once covered with plain or waxed cambric , glued and gimped into place . |