Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville . |
| 2 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
| 3 | The wetlands and wastes of England were soon to be loud with their tumults . |
| 4 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |
| 5 | They were also to be subject to greater control by central government , since the Minister , as the President of the Board was to become , could intervene if an authority was not providing an education ‘ appropriate to the age , ability and aptitude of the child ’ . |
| 6 | From May 6 restrictions on the amount of money Greek travellers to EC countries might take with them were relaxed , as part of a Bank of Greece package of liberalization measures to meet EC guidelines ; Greeks were also to be able to participate as individuals on EC member countries ' stock markets . |
| 7 | Similarly , tenements given for maintaining a chantry or lights in some church or chapel , or given for some other alms , if they were alienated , were also to be recoverable by the donor or his heirs . |
| 8 | At Bologna in the late 1180s Lothar may have made the acquaintance among his fellow students of Peter Collivaccinus of Benevento , and others , who were later to be important in the legal developments of his pontificate , collecting papal legal decisions or decretals . |
| 9 | The American factor and the continued strength of a spirit of religious intolerance had proved decisive in Manchester and in 1854 they were equally to be central in the failure to find a single national organisational focus for antislavery commitment . |
| 10 | As the subject assessment proceeded it also became clear that the Subject Assessors were there to be supportive — not to look for mistakes , but to help us ’ . |
| 11 | Being so close to Lord Byron was somewhat like being close to big game — a lion encountered at the foot of Kilimanjaro . |
| 12 | The suspension of all social security payments was only to be temporary , part of a national effort to restore confidence in the pound . |
| 13 | An exclusion of liability for negligence in a consumer contract was held unreasonable at first instance in Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported where a clause in a contract for the processing of photographs provided that in the event of loss the processor was only to be liable for the value of the unprocessed material . |
| 14 | The intention to do so must therefore be made perfectly clear , for otherwise the court will consider that the exempted party was only to be free from liability in respect of damage occasioned by causes other than the negligence for which he is answerable . |
| 15 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 16 | It had become possible to demonstrate the causative organism of syphilis , Treponema pallidum , under the microscope ; there was soon to be available a blood test , the Wasserman Reaction ( WR ) , which enabled syphilis to be diagnosed in the absence of any signs of the disease ; and finally , a new syphilitic treatment , Salvarsan , an arsenic compound , had become available . |
| 17 | The whole of Europe was soon to be interested in his work . |
| 18 | Glow-strips flickered , as if to this stifling hell of pain and terror was soon to be added darkness . |
| 19 | And I knew what it was like to be tired and weary , but I knew that if I trusted in God and spent time with him then he would renew my strength and I could carry on . |
| 20 | An agreeable sort of departure , a legal exit to which no legal re-entry was ever to be forthcoming . |
| 21 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |
| 22 | Whatever was meant to be payable at all , under this agreement , was clearly to be payable by half-yearly instalments of £150 each ; any other construction must necessarily make the conditional promise nugatory . |
| 23 | From 14 April 1931 down to September 1933 the Socialists held three ministerial portfolios : Indalecio Prieto occupied the Finance ministry in the Provisional Government and later the Ministry of Public Works ; Fernando de los Ríos was Minister of Justice ; and the Ministry of Labour was occupied throughout by the general secretary of the UGT , Francisco Largo Caballero , a former plasterer who had left school at seven and was later to be Prime Minister of the wartime Republic . |
| 24 | A year later she met and began to live with C. , who was the father of her baby who was later to be stillborn . |
| 25 | Tice 's Meadow at nearby Badshot Lea was later to be subject to plans for housing development ( see 30 years ago from out files ) . |
| 26 | In the future , town planning was not just about scheme preparation for coordinated development , or the rational control of land use , or even spatial strategies for cities ; it was now to be involved in regional economic affairs , though just how had yet to be demonstrated . |
| 27 | This boy , this youngster , this barely grown-up Arab ‘ son ’ was indeed to be married . |
| 28 | Although the name Shaw has not arisen before this date , from here onwards it was never to be far from the Lakeland milling scene . |
| 29 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |