Example sentences of "[det] was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to be expected given the experience and personalities involved such as Morse , Thomson , Field , Bright and Brunel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls . |
| 5 | This was to be achieved partly by diversifying exports , but more significantly by creating local industries to manufacture goods that had previously been imported . |
| 6 | This was to be demonstrated in the same way as the arbitrariness of capital relations of production by showing that in totally different systems the family was totally different . |
| 7 | In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power . |
| 8 | You 've got to be able to draw your own conclusions , that this was to an extent a personal vendetta . ’ |
| 9 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 10 | This was to be achieved through fascination with base material ( excrement , big toes , freaks , anything that highminded principles and good taste decreed lowly ) ; through an obsessional interest in ritual and religiosity , a pagan celebration of the moment rather than investment in a scheme of forward planning and providence , a pagan worship of the icon-in-all-its-materiality rather than of the Essence . |
| 11 | It was impossible to hug and kiss her with those letters in the background ( all the more , since this was to be their first , and thus an unforgettable , kiss ) , and so he had no choice but to turn back with a bitter sense of capitulation . |
| 12 | But if this was to be achieved then public spending — as a proportion of national wealth — had to come down . |
| 13 | This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble . |
| 14 | her strong suit was the family chronicle and , if this was to be extended over three or more generations , enough leading personages had to be kept in the land of the living . |
| 15 | Henceforth , and unlike the earlier period , this was to be the dominant aspect of the rite . |
| 16 | This was to be expected with the land being the main basic ingredient in the viability of the business . |
| 17 | This was to be achieved by subjecting the child to a rigidly regulated regime based on discipline , training , and religion ( Ruyter and Van Weelden , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working . |
| 19 | Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance . |
| 20 | This was to be achieved by increasing the cost of buying and running cars by about 50 per cent . |
| 21 | I had achieved what I came to Peru to do and , more than I could realise , this was to be the end of something . |
| 22 | This was to be the site of Cuzco . |
| 23 | This was to the advantage of the young radicals ; like the leftists in the NILP , they were not hampered by tradition and did not have to placate their seniors before or after embracing heresy . |
| 24 | This was to be remedied by Commodore Vanderbilt , the greatest merchant prince of the American railroad companies , president of the New York Central , whose family had started on its route to fortune with a steamboat line . |
| 25 | This was to be Pilgrimsway Loki . |
| 26 | It was to start on the night of 17 November , and L Detachment 's role in this was to be small but potentially crucial . |
| 27 | This was to be a body of experts — drawn from within the Ministry , HMI , the universities , and the schools — to advise the Minister , the examining bodies , and others concerned with curriculum change . |
| 28 | This was to be preferred to the more rigid prescriptions of schools like the large 11–18 Welsh comprehensive which allocated young pupils to sharply divided courses within the school : one group advancing fast to O level in four years , four groups in five years , the next four to CSE ( for which see Chapter 7 ) in five years , four groups following special technical courses , two following general technical courses , two or three on commercial courses , and finally two groups for ‘ low ability ’ pupils . |
| 29 | This was to be the first of three stages in a carefully planned development of the imperial role and power . |
| 30 | This was to be the communication of joint discovery and experiment . |