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it was to be a time when meaning

English Language & Usage Asked by Vali Asghari Bakhtavar on December 19, 2020

I was watching a history movie that I saw a new sentence, So I can’t meaning that.

"It was to be a time when Florence set the standards for European art and culture."

I know be to used for saying arrangement or order but in this sentence doesn’t mean.

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This construction is sometimes used in historical presentation. It is often preceded by an introduction to the theme.

For example. “The fifteenth century dawned {introduction}. It {the 15th century} was to be a time ...”

Here, the reader or listener is invited to place their thoughts at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and to look forward into that century. Hence “It was (looking back from our present viewpoint) to be (looking forward from the viewpoint of the start of that century) a time when ...”

Answered by Anton on December 19, 2020

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