Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 2 | Largely due to Bernard , they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court . |
| 3 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 4 | Morel 's even-handed appeal to ‘ artisans ’ and ‘ industrialists , quickly gave way to the belief that ‘ if any radical changes were to come in the system of intercourse between states … the driving force must come from the organisations of labour . ’ |
| 5 | The airport brings major economic benefits to the North West as we were to discover with the help of our guide John Kirby . |
| 6 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 7 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 8 | Before the post of Commissioner was established , it was considered in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that trade union members needed to be ‘ exceptionally determined and sometimes courageous ’ if they were to embark on the process of claiming and enforcing the full rights which the law gave to them . |
| 9 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 10 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 11 | The activities singled out were to do with the use of ratepayers ' money to promote certain ideas . |
| 12 | By the end of the 14th century the Warren family of Poynton had become Lords of the Manor , a title which they were to retain until the death of Sir George Warren in 1801 . |
| 13 | the end cha , the end of the chapter said that if parents were to re-take on the role of educating and disciplining children within the home |
| 14 | However , as Colwell et al have pointed out ( Colwell et al , 1983 ) if enhanced platelet aggregation were to contribute to the pathogenesis of diabetic vascular disease then evidence of it should be present before the development of vascular disease . |
| 15 | If time were to run from the accrual of the cause of action , i.e. when the expenses were incurred , summary proceedings might often be statute-barred before they could be brought , especially where there was an appeal against the demand . |
| 16 | Yet it was the only way to go if the labels they represent were to compete with the might of the majors . |
| 17 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 18 | • If you were to die as the result of an accident the Plan would pay out £40,000 to your estate . |
| 19 | Or rather , as Clive would look if he were to live to the age of one hundred and fifty and then die . |
| 20 | The kind of people who were to live in the network of what now amounts to eight properties — six owner-occupied houses and two rented apartment schemes — were not people with severe disabilities and high levels of dependency . |
| 21 | If we were to backtrack in the area of supporting composers , commissioning new work and putting it on as public a stage as possible , that would be close to admitting : ‘ Look , a classical commercial station can do the job just as well . |
| 22 | What the widow , divorcee or sorrowing woman fails to realize is that if the grieving were to stop the interest might diminish , or if intimacy were to develop to the point of involving responsibility , comfort would be withdrawn . |
| 23 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 24 | For the present , it must suffice to say that Eadmer 's report brings into Rufus 's reign a theme which is wholly lacking in Anselm 's letters , and we must ask whether Eadmer is not , here as elsewhere , reading back into Rufus 's reign the lessons which he and Anselm were to learn in the course of their joint exile . |
| 25 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |
| 26 | Such views were to move into the mainstream of Labour politics only when liberal capitalism collapsed under the strains of the First World War . |
| 27 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 29 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 30 | Bomber Command 's immediate priorities after this raid switched to bombing the concentration of invasion barges in the Channel ports , but raids on the German capital were to follow for the rest of the war . |