Example sentences of "[conj] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 2 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The actual pension that was to be provided , about a quarter of average earnings , was rather modest in comparison to the pensions provided in most other Western European states . |
| 5 | The result was a single national airline that was to be the so-called ‘ chosen instrument ’ for British air services : British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) . |
| 6 | Ealing 's Meet Mr Lucifer ( 1953 ) defined the new medium 's effect on audiences as largely negative and , by distinguishing the communal address of cinema from television 's attention to the individual , established a line of attack that was to be much used later . |
| 7 | Aitken began mapping out the song that was to be one of the biggest hits of the 1980s . |
| 8 | Some thought this a better idea to using the Henly legacy — but it was the legacy that was to be used after all , as opposition to selling land mounted . |
| 9 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 10 | With the amount of work that was to be dealt with during the coming months his chances of getting away from the hospital much before eight or nine any evening were very slight . |
| 11 | This second study differed only in that during initial training the subjects received conditioning trials with a different stimulus ( a light ) in the context that was to be used for the test . |
| 12 | And the dream took her into hospital where the nice young man was lying in bed with his head bandaged and she was holding his hand ; and the dream brought a little comfort to the events of a night that was to be the turning point in her life . |
| 13 | The sight of his small and snake-like frame weaving through packed defences virtually established the image of the tiny and recalcitrant Scottish forward , a mantle that was to be worn with tetchy pride by successors like Willie Henderson , Jimmy Johnstone , Gordon Strachan , David Speedie and Mo Johnston . |
| 14 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 15 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 16 | Bukharin thus posed the problem facing the Bolsheviks in its starkest form , a problem that was to be hotly debated for nearly a decade to come . |
| 17 | It was felt that such speed limits were not practical over the wide area that was to be covered by the experiment , and that it would be better to scrap such treatment of individual streets and instead integrate such areas into a widespread system of 30 km/h streets . |
| 18 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 19 | The only worrying aspect of the match was the overwhelming superiority which Queensland enjoyed at the line-out , something that was to be a recurring problem in the later stages of the tour in the big matches . |
| 20 | In connection with the Festival of Britain Exhibition that was to be held at South Bank in 1951 , some major road works were carried out between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Station , streets in that area being made ‘ one way ’ at the same time . |
| 21 | The two men eventually fell into conversation , the late-comer explaining that he was a director of the railway company and that he was interested in a new branch line that was to be opened . |
| 22 | On the other hand , he received , even in infancy , the opposition that was to be repeated throughout his life , ending with crucifixion . |
| 23 | Mozart 's letters from Frankfurt are full of references to a mysterious deal that was to be the solution to all their problems . |
| 24 | FIRST CHRISTMAS : Rachel and baby Alex at Christmas in 1989 … happiness that was to be shattered by a madman |
| 25 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 26 | Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work . |
| 27 | Historicity is a mode of knowledge for some societies but can not ipso facto claim to be the fundamental basis of knowledge for all of them — a point that was to be re-emphasized by Foucault in The Order of Things . |
| 28 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 29 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 30 | He exulted in the triumph of the new order now established in Germany and the new justice that was to be applied to his racial and cultural antagonists . |