Example sentences of "and [adj] [was/were] to " 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 | We had one more day trip by boat before we left Praslin , and that was to the island of La Digue to try and see the black paradise flycatcher . |
| 3 | A year later he joined the Italian MV team and that was to be the start of five glorious years for Surrey-born Surtees . |
| 4 | And that was to the horse ? |
| 5 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke told TUFL there were many voices in Scotland claiming that the Scottish economy had managed to avoid the recession and that was to the credit of the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , and his fellow ministers . |
| 8 | Social Services the world of Social Services do n't have as strong a lobby as the Education lobby , or the Environment lobby , nationally or traditionally , and in a way I think the awfulness of the situation got people to the point of saying enough 's enough , and that was to me very healthy , absolutely healthy . |
| 9 | Route 4 — West Croydon — Penge was to be abandoned and competing bus services 12 and 75 were to be strengthened . |
| 10 | The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working . |
| 11 | And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny . |
| 12 | But they did not and this was to be their downfall . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And this was to be the case with a lot of actuality pictures of the time . |
| 15 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 16 | In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades . |
| 17 | The factory which opened in 1986 at Washington , Tyne and Wear was capable of assembling 24,000 cars only and these were to be constructed from ‘ kits ’ imported from Japan . |
| 18 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 19 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 20 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 21 | Of the remaining seats , 152 would be elected on a proportional basis from county and metropolitan lists , and 58 were to be indirectly elected from national " compensation " lists nominated by the parties . |
| 22 | Stages I and II were to be directed to the improvement of tribunals by the strengthening of their personnel , and in particular by appointing lawyer chairmen , with a senior chairman appointed for each region . |
| 23 | Promises were given at Sunningdale in 1973 that articles 2 and 3 were to be withdrawn and were repeated before Hillsborough in 1985 . |
| 24 | 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 . |