Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 2 | If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man . |
| 3 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 4 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 5 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 6 | This political imbalance of North and South remained imperfectly corrected till 1832 — indeed it was to be made worse by the Tudor establishment of boroughs in the Crown duchy of Cornwall in the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Instead it was to be tailed and kept under observation , until the arrival of Curtis and his squad . |