Example sentences of "were [adv] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 2 | We were soon to discover that he specialises , not only in deft , on-the-spot sketches , but also in brief pungent descriptions with much use of cunning metaphor . |
| 3 | But two men in the Chelsea directors ' box were soon to show that they enjoy the away game just as much . |
| 4 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 5 | The proposals suggested yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition were clearly to ensure that British farmers reduced their already low incomes and that the money be used for development — rural and urban — in the southern parts of the European Community . |
| 6 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 7 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 8 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 9 | University members of boards in particular were regularly to agree that the process was more rigorous than those in their own universities . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |