Example sentences of "it [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were to continue throughout the decade the structure of the game could change significantly , by forcing counties to employ only a small force of top-class full-time professionals supplemented with part timers and the many amateur cricketers thrown up in the recreational game . |
| 2 | The advancing edge or step is now twice the normal height and so would require twice the amount of new material if it were to advance at the same rate as the other layers . |
| 3 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 4 | If causes dear to his heart , such as feminism , even figured at all in the mass-circulation papers , it was to serve as the butt for an endless stream of cheap jokes . |
| 5 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 6 | Pence and pounds than it was to deal with the old pounds , shillings and pence . |
| 7 | The commitment to a learning theory which explained all crime clearly required the specification of empirically identifiable learning processes if it was to progress beyond the simple assertion that crime is learned . |
| 8 | It was to last throughout the 1540s , and then go into abeyance , lying dormant — despite Mary Queen of Scots ' burning awareness of her position as Elizabeth 's heir presumptive — until it had to be faced again , when James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603 . |
| 9 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 10 | In reply , the Commission stated that under articles 4(2) and 8 of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 it was to submit to the Council of the European Communities before 31 December 1991 a report on the fisheries situation in the Community , the economic and social development of the coastal areas and the state of the stocks and their likely evolution . |
| 11 | When he left Paris , it was to go to the Royal Marsden . |
| 12 | I later learned that , when they went off together in that fashion , it was to go to the pictures . |
| 13 | He said it was to go with the wagon to Ramsey , and we put it in among the logs , well wedged in . |
| 14 | Over those years accumulation built up the phenomenal momentum which it was to sustain through the sixties . |
| 15 | After three hundred years of playing a part in every major war , it was told it was to merge with The Duke of Edinburghs Royal Regiment . |
| 16 | Midland Bank announced it was to merge with the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation . |
| 17 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 18 | Probably it was to do with the animals after all . |
| 19 | Much of it was to do with the personality of the editor , Richard Neville . |
| 20 | I think a lot of it was to do with the fact that I 'd never driven in the dark before . |
| 21 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 22 | The crisis made TI realise that it needed a radical change of direction if it was to survive in the future . |
| 23 | By the end of the war , Bloomsbury House maintained a small department of welfare workers whose job it was to care for the chronically ill . |
| 24 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 25 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 26 | The government announced on Oct. 2 that it was to postpone until the end of 1991 the enactment of a controversial bill which would have allowed Japan to send up to 2,000 troops abroad as part of its contribution to UN peacekeeping forces in Cambodia and elsewhere . |
| 27 | Moreover , the child may feel unreasonable guilt that , somehow , it was to blame for the death . |
| 28 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 29 | It was to start on the night of 17 November , and L Detachment 's role in this was to be small but potentially crucial . |
| 30 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |