Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 2 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
| 3 | Co-operation with the LEAs was equally important and was to be sought on a basis of complementary provision rather than through competitive relationships . |
| 4 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 5 | Thereafter the dispute grew fiercer and was to be further exacerbated by Crowe 's royalist and the company 's parliamentarian sympathies . |
| 6 | A new investment code was approved by the CCM in late March 1990 and was to be put before Parliament in April . |