Example sentences of "[conj] was to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , among a great variety of substances , there appeared one that was to be crucial for the further development of life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This bespoke greater intellectual confidence than was to be evident at later stages of controversy . |
| 4 | He collapsed at the inaugural conference of the Serbian Socialist Party for Kosovo and Metohija , which replaced the Kosovo LC and was to be subordinate to the Serbian Socialist Party formed in July [ see p. 37622 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |