Example sentences of "but it [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 2 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 3 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 4 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 5 | But it was to be completely apart from the real functions of government , and courtiers were neither expected nor permitted to be politicians . |
| 6 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
| 7 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
| 8 | But it was to be Cardiff and not Oxford , railways and not mathematics . |
| 9 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |
| 10 | This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning . |
| 11 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
| 12 | But it was to be a cruel illusion . |
| 13 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 14 | But it was to be another 20 years before the changes had marked effect . |
| 15 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 16 | The suspension was initially to be rescinded within four months , but it was to be renewed up to 1821 . |
| 17 | Not only was the state 's liability for compensation limited , but it was to be paid only if and when the owner of land suffered from planning restrictions . |
| 18 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |