Example sentences of "[subord] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already by the late middle ages the English were beginning to expect more space and more privacy in their houses than was to be normal in Scandinavia for another three centuries . |
| 2 | This bespoke greater intellectual confidence than was to be evident at later stages of controversy . |
| 3 | The occasional protests by staff through the years over pay and conditions had usually been dealt with quickly , abrasions salved and healed by the implicit belief that matters would eventually improve , if not tomorrow , then certainly by the day after — and that one was still having more fun than was to be had almost anywhere else anyway . |
| 4 | But obviously it must be necessary to waive the statutory sectors , versus the non statutory , so it is n't er possible this year , perhaps to put in as we might do if were to be as imprudent as the opposition parties . |
| 5 | As was to be the case with far more important orders to the peasantry from the very highest level at the start of collectivization after NEP , bureaucratic delays and excessive central demands soon resulted in comparable excess of zeal at local levels . |
| 6 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 7 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 8 | It was indeed precisely the combination of as much ‘ national ’ pride as was to be found among the greater kingdoms of Europe , with far less material resources on which to base it , which made Scotland so unusual . |
| 9 | Here arch , colonnade , dome , and column were flaunted in a triumphalist manner , with the vault of the great concourse projecting dramatically above the roof line as was to be common in all Beaux-Arts stations . |
| 10 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |
| 11 | As was to be expected , town dwellers were better informed than rural people . |
| 12 | Results have shown very low levels of infection amongst the general population , as was to be expected . |
| 13 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 14 | Husbandmen , as was to be expected with the most numerous class — and as the typical countrymen — comprehended a broad spectrum . |
| 15 | She had been Form Mistress of Junior C from 1950 to 1962 and taught with patience , sympathy , and understanding , introducing many boys not only to drama ( as was to be expected ) but also to cricket and football . |
| 16 | Maxwell 's theory clashed with these generally accepted assumptions because it predicted that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon and also predicted , as was to be realized later , that fluctuating currents should emit a new kind of radiation , radio waves , travelling at a finite velocity through empty space . |
| 17 | Eliot , as was to be expected , was particularly interested in the kind of propaganda we were putting out to Germany and Italy : for the propaganda war had already begun and was intensifying . |
| 18 | As was to be expected , the official candidates won . |
| 19 | As was to be expected , it depends on the sign of the density gradient but not on that of the velocity gradient . |
| 20 | Mouncy Street had more of the river in its atmosphere , Decimus Street more of the gasometer , while Paradise Street , as was to be expected , was altogether richer and racier on account of the cats'-meat man who boiled up his ware in an old stable in the road . |