Example sentences of "though it was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 2 | by the time Sophie-Carmen was six , she was improvising freely at the piano ( though it was to be a year-and-a-half before she had any formal instruction in music ) . |
| 3 | As early as 1249 , when England and Scotland were nominally at peace and recognized each other as separate kingdoms , a commission of English and Scottish knights framed a code of Laws and Customs of the Marches for use in local and national disputes and transgressions , though it was to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 4 | Science was being taught in public schools and in grammar schools , and there were courses in universities , which in Britain began at about this time to catch on — this was the era when the great municipal universities started to flourish , though it was to be some time before they received government grants . |
| 5 | Marriage , though it was to be to a priest , and thus well within her world , represented an escape from her family . |