Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a lonely rajah or two was to be seen now , solitary figures surrounded by servants , watching through elaborate brass telescopes acquired at one or other of the European stores in Calcutta . |
| 2 | The only game in town was mass circulation , and that was to be achieved by NoS becoming an aggressively popular tabloid . |
| 3 | A year later he joined the Italian MV team and that was to be the start of five glorious years for Surrey-born Surtees . |
| 4 | When the CNAA took over the DMS there were nationally some 6600 students enrolled on courses , and that was to be the order of magnitude of enrolments through the late 1970s and 1980s . |
| 5 | The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working . |
| 6 | And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny . |
| 7 | But they did not and this was to be their downfall . |
| 8 | The establishment and maintenance of peace was the primary aim of idealists , and this was to be achieved through the spread of liberal democracy and through international law , administered by a newly created international organization , the League of Nations . |
| 9 | And this was to be the case with a lot of actuality pictures of the time . |
| 10 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 11 | Certainly it was a man 's room , but that was to be expected . |
| 12 | But that was to be expected . |
| 13 | ‘ But that was to be expected . |
| 14 | But that was to be expected down here . |
| 15 | The timetable of Francis 's movements after his father 's death was still full of gaps but that was to be expected . |
| 16 | Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance . |
| 17 | But this was to be a market that was not wholly free or spontaneous . |
| 18 | But this was to be a very different story and one unsuited to the ears of children . |
| 19 | The overthrow of a Foreign Secretary was a considerable achievement for a popular agitation , but this was to be the limit of the peace Ballot 's success . |
| 20 | Such measures brought it to heel for the time being ; but this was to be the last occasion before the end of the old monarchy when the government won a real victory over this increasingly dangerous opponent . |
| 21 | The war years had certainly elevated their position , but this was to be only temporary , and at the end of the 17th Century women were as badly off as if the war had never happened , worse in fact because their position declined after the war . |
| 22 | Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us . |
| 23 | But this was to be expected just before a general election . |