Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 2 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 3 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 8 | The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed . |
| 9 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 10 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 11 | But just what was to be in Oz ? |
| 12 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 13 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 14 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 15 | In procedural terms also there was to be no shortage of room for ambiguity . |
| 16 | The syllabuses for GCE and CSE always prescribed quite clearly what was to be taught to pupils from the age of fourteen upwards . |
| 17 | Now I was to be a sales assistant . |
| 18 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 19 | Where now he was to be incarcerated as a hostage , a prisoner , an enemy . |
| 20 | Now he was to be particularly zealous in the interests of the king . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Such a practice was frowned on by the church , and instructions were given to the warden of the building that if any young woman allowed a man to stay overnight then she was to be reported to the Mother Superior . |
| 24 | Unfortunately there was to be no 200 metres event , but there were some invitation events scheduled including a 60 metres , and having won that event at the Cosford Games I thought that I would be selected . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was pointed out that it was hardly surprising there was a significant negative relationship between existing levels and subsequent change since ‘ decentralization ’ , i.e. movement away from existing areas , was precisely what was to be explained . |
| 30 | Instead there was to be a 25 per cent reduction in the state 's operational budget , some tax increases , the sale of some 3,000 government-owned vehicles , and strict control of the civil service payroll . |