Example sentences of "there was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 2 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 3 | There was to be no eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation this time . |
| 4 | Later that afternoon , when she had finished her shopping and passed the shop a second time , she found the E had been changed to an A. Just as , when she informed her class of noisy fourteen-year-olds that there was to be ‘ no more of that ’ , there was no more . |
| 5 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 6 | If there was to be an escape , it was to lie not in the ‘ damp gust bringing rain ’ but in ‘ Shantih ’ as the Buddhist 's passing beyond the cycles of creation . |
| 7 | There was to be a modest reduction in their strength from 800,000 to 700,000 in all ranks . |
| 8 | If there was to be any relationship , she wanted to see his head on the pillow most mornings . |
| 9 | In the autumn there was to be a break in his usual routine . |
| 10 | There was to be a reception , and later we were invited to dinner at the house of the British Council representative . |
| 11 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 12 | This time the ‘ Oh ’ seemed all there was to be said . |
| 13 | For Kylie , however there was to be no looking back . |
| 14 | Miserably , she backed out of the room , not wanting to desert Mrs Browning and be held responsible for her collapse , if collapse there was to be . |
| 15 | What prompted blunter speaking we do not know , but there was to be no lack of plainness in the English memorandum drawn up on the 31st . |
| 16 | There was to be no escape . |
| 17 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 18 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 19 | Furthermore , there was to be no ‘ promiscuous dancing ’ , which meant men and women … together ! |
| 20 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 21 | There was to be no ‘ acting tough or noisy ill-discipline ’ ; toughness was to be reserved for the enemy . |
| 22 | There was to be no embarkation leave , of course , because of the obvious necessity of preserving secrecy about the date of the invasion of north-west Europe . |
| 23 | There was to be great a embankment across the Welland Valley to carry the canal southwards well to the east of Barnes 's line but eventually joining the Grand Junction again very near to Long Buckby . |
| 24 | There was to be no opposition , the Syrians said . |
| 25 | There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching , and to make part-time teaching more attractive . |
| 26 | There was to be much fun , many pleasures , many stabs of joy ; but no more of the old security . |
| 27 | Sandison felt relieved that there was to be no pursuit of his reasons for coming to Naples . |
| 28 | If there was to be selection then some would inevitably be selected out of the grammar school class . |
| 29 | The Smith residence was a plush , elderly house set amongst trees and shrubs off the road ; the lights were on and there was to be no deliverance . |
| 30 | There was to be no quibbling , just , ‘ How much ? ’ for she had made up her mind that , no matter what it cost , she was going to have this outfit . |