Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 2 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 3 | She has some spots on her , also some others she was with were spotted . |
| 4 | In this society it follows that real talent goes unrewarded and unflinching purity of soul is automatically derided — on both these counts I am to be numbered among the punished , especially in regard to material goods and services , financial security , the trust and love of friendship , and the divinely counselled companionship of wife and family . |
| 5 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 6 | Riven , remembering the Rime Giant 's attempt on his life in Ralarth Rorim , could not help but wonder how many more times he was to be the focus of a battle . |
| 7 | In spite of its obvious imitation of continental movements it was to be a profoundly British variant , with social and political roots in domestic problems . |
| 8 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 9 | For the following two weeks she was to be part of an ENSA company touring remote army camps in Wales . |
| 10 | In most instances it is to be expected that ‘ NT ’ and ‘ BT ’ statements should be accompanied by their inverse . |