Example sentences of "[coord] [ex0] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 2 | The linen on the beds was to be changed once in fourteen days , and there were to be three blankets and one quilt to each bed . |
| 3 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 4 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 5 | The Smith residence was a plush , elderly house set amongst trees and shrubs off the road ; the lights were on and there was to be no deliverance . |
| 6 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 7 | That was Jackie 's third championship in the bag and there was to be only one more race for him , his ninety-ninth , in Canada , where he finished fifth . |
| 8 | Suffolk had received £6.5 million of new transfer money from the Government and there was to be no change in the level of funding . |
| 9 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 10 | The fees were set at £6 for the Junior Department and £10 for the Senior ; and there was to be no age differentiation in future . |
| 11 | He brought the doctor back to earth in Doctor Dolittle 's Return ( 1933 ) , and there was to be one last book , Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake , built round the story of the Flood with Dr Dolittle as a latter-day Noah . |
| 12 | Corporate income tax was reduced by one percentage point to 31 per cent and there was to be a one-off rebate of 5 per cent in personal income tax . |
| 13 | John Patten was to reply to the debate on education and there was to be a debate on defence . |
| 14 | Five gallons of wine was to be levied on every half acre of land , and there was to be an additional tax on manpower . |
| 15 | If all went awry and there was to be a last ditch fight for the city , this is where it would take place . ) |
| 16 | And there was to be the big industrialists , three or four of them . |
| 17 | What prompted blunter speaking we do not know , but there was to be no lack of plainness in the English memorandum drawn up on the 31st . |
| 18 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 19 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 20 | But there was to be no rest . |
| 21 | They were to tutor the child who refused to attend school , but there was to be more to it than that . |
| 22 | But there was to be no reversal of the British attitude . |
| 23 | But there was to be a change . |
| 24 | John hoped that Mr Gubb would now spare the boy : but there was to be no remission ; the penalty had to be paid , the example given . |
| 25 | But there was to be no repeat of the growing anti-war movement of 1916 . |
| 26 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 27 | Salaries were to be increased by 9% , full London Weighting of £1776 to be given to all London staff , but there was to be no reduction in differentials . |
| 28 | But there was to be Norman Lamont and a tr and treasury ministers , three or four of them . |
| 29 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 30 | Events after 1969 shows that Nixon intended to continue the use of America 's great influence and power ; but there were to be no more Vietnams . |