Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 2 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 3 | How glad we were soon to be of this memory . |
| 4 | He went and denounced the wicked city , saying that like all other wicked cities of the Eastern Mediterranean it was about to be annihilated . |
| 5 | The EDC was to be a military organisation , but for many it was also to be a further step along the road to European integration . |
| 6 | People had remarked how pleasant it was not to be enveloped in smoke . |
| 7 | The American factor and the continued strength of a spirit of religious intolerance had proved decisive in Manchester and in 1854 they were equally to be central in the failure to find a single national organisational focus for antislavery commitment . |