Example sentences of "[adv] it was to be " 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 The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed .
6 As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) .
7 Today it was to be local aerobatics ; the war in Europe may have ended , but he was eagerly hoping for a posting to the Pacific Theatre .
8 Well it was to be helpful to the er to Mr and Scotton Parish Council that what what I was saying was , we were n't relying on the key diagram to justify at some future date , it being an outer northern relief road , that decision would have to be defended at future enquiry .
9 Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured .
10 Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised .
11 This must be a taste of how it was to be a Marine in armour , whose servo-suit responded to the motions of his body , magnifying these …
12 The most critical part of the whole job was planning exactly what needed to be done , how it was to be done and when .
13 We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done .
14 Cold water and washing soap , this was how it was to be .
15 Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised .
16 Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised .
17 This was not how it was to be .
18 The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter .
19 He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea .
20 It was their first major flight away from the barn , and of course we did n't know then it was to be their last .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Instead it was to be tailed and kept under observation , until the arrival of Curtis and his squad .
24 In a sense they were victims of a paradox ; they had chosen their middle way in order to retain their identity ; yet it was to be this very middle way which convinced others that they had relinquished it .
25 Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland .
26 The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day .
27 From the early 1960s onwards it was to be a trip that many young English radicals were to make .
28 In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ .
29 In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants .
30 The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach .
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