Example sentences of "that was to be " in BNC.

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1 The Club , however , made the best of it and handed the Station Commander RAF Gatow a cheque for DM10,000 that was to be split between SSAFA and RAFA .
2 Certainly it was a man 's room , but that was to be expected .
3 That was to be a visit to Chinchero market on my final day .
4 So that was to be her by-name — the Rose ?
5 Proof of that was to be found in the returns to Parliament during 1826 and 1827 which showed that out of sixty-seven executions ordered against goods only forty produced payment .
6 ‘ I 've never seen one before , ’ she said excitedly , when it was clear that that was to be their only sighting .
7 The victory did not , however , mean the immediate defeat of England ; that was to be a rather longer process .
8 So that was to be the landing place , on July 4th .
9 The only game in town was mass circulation , and that was to be achieved by NoS becoming an aggressively popular tabloid .
10 Occasionally we could glimpse the bare walls of the vertical crux corner 100 feet or more above — that was to be my pitch .
11 For at least a further two decades that was to be the reality of an intransigent British position .
12 I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year .
13 But that was to be expected .
14 ‘ But that was to be expected .
15 For example , when the State Department 's Far Eastern Office was trying , unsuccessfully , to put together a compromise paper that would be agreed with the European Office , one may applaud the objective of an Indo-China that was to be fully self-governed , autonomous , and democratic : but there was a world of difference between a ‘ national ’ and a ‘ federal ’ government which would become obvious as events unfolded and the qualification , which Moffat and his colleagues seemed to accept , to full self-government which was explicit in Indo-China 's recommended partnership in the French Union , and was , by implication reserved to France as a matter of imperial concern , precisely the point , or at least the formality , which produced the irreparable break between France and Ho 's infant Republic .
16 A year later he joined the Italian MV team and that was to be the start of five glorious years for Surrey-born Surtees .
17 Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) .
18 The judge referred to a previous decision of his , In re H. ( Minor ) ( Abduction ) [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 439 , but he said that that was to be distinguished because in that case there was in existence at the time of the removal an order of the court that the child should not be removed from the jurisdiction .
19 But that was to be expected down here .
20 That was to be taken with roast lamb , not adulterating his drinks .
21 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 .
22 That was to be my job , I 'm on the Double X , you know .
23 That was to be Herr Hess 's pledge of his intent .
24 ‘ Yes , dear , that was to be expected .
25 The timetable of Francis 's movements after his father 's death was still full of gaps but that was to be expected .
26 ‘ A bit tired , but the doctor said that was to be expected for a day or two .
27 Peggy Wood and her team transformed the Davidson Room into an Aladdin 's Cave of Things Past and Present that was to be a magnet and a haven for members of the public .
28 That was , that was to be was n't it ?
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