Example sentences of "and [adj] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only game in town was mass circulation , and that was to be achieved by NoS becoming an aggressively popular tabloid . |
| 2 | A year later he joined the Italian MV team and that was to be the start of five glorious years for Surrey-born Surtees . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working . |
| 5 | And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny . |
| 6 | But they did not and this was to be their downfall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And this was to be the case with a lot of actuality pictures of the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |