Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 2 | Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced . |
| 3 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 4 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 5 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 6 | ( He was to apologise for this braggadocio two years later . ) |
| 7 | This new phase , following on the day of judgement , was to last for all eternity . |
| 8 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 9 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 10 | If Hunt 's account is correct , his identification of the voice based upon years of listening to Joyce 's street-corner oratory , then the blackest irony of Lord Haw-Haw 's career was to die for such rubbish as this . |
| 11 | But meanwhile , who was to pay for this room ? |
| 12 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 13 | He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness . |