Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He said that her next responsibility was to be loyal to her husband above all else . |
| 32 | Their original term was to be twenty-one years , though extension was usual , and few restrictions were imposed on the trusts ' powers of raising capital on the security of the tolls , on their use of it , or on the appointment of toll gatherers , nor on the freedom to contract out the tolls at auction . |
| 33 | Its institutional structure was to be complex and far-reaching , with a European Executive Council , a Council of National Ministers , a Court of Justice and a popularly elected Parliament . |
| 34 | For Tolkien , whose literary pilgrimage was to be so lonely , and whose return to Oxford had not been marked by great domestic happiness , there was something very cheering in the company of this clever , widely read , humorous and spontaneously affectionate Irishman . |
| 35 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 36 | His greatest ambition was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 37 | Winstanley , however , had full confidence and proclaimed his greatest wish was to be upon the rock during ‘ … the greatest storm that ever was ’ . |
| 38 | Unlike the Platonists he saw no ontological continuity between the soul and God , but a relationship of likeness based on the Biblical account of man 's creation in Genesis ( 1:26 — 7 ) where his peculiar property was to be made in the image of God . |
| 39 | Yet , despite his dislike of her , his male instinct was to be protective . |
| 40 | His early ambition was to be an actor . |
| 41 | His dubious reward was to be given the Department of the Environment . |
| 42 | At that moment his dearest wish was to be back at work and having lunch with Mrs Tobias . |
| 43 | His conclusion that it was simply an old-fashioned recognition of his comparative youth was to be torpedoed a few minutes later when he heard her addressing his neighbour as Alf . |
| 44 | His first ambition was to be a pilot or flight engineer . |
| 45 | In April 1990 Duval was allowed to visit Réunion , on condition that he return by April 30 , when the verdict of the judicial inquiry into his alleged involvement was to be announced . |
| 46 | Mathew Spedding , it seems , was still working his small mine up on the fells somewhere , and again , his small sett was to be excluded . |
| 47 | His particular work was to be a pioneer missionary — a planter of churches where ‘ Christ has not been heard of ’ . |
| 48 | Prominent among the martial aristocrats on the episcopal bench was Henry Despenser who had already fought in Italy for the pope against Milan before he became bishop of Norwich in 1370 ; his military career was to be resumed in the next reign , as we shall see . |
| 49 | His whole system was to be tested to its limits when a war with France began in 1793 which lasted , with only brief intermission , for more than twenty years . |
| 50 | When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " . |
| 51 | His original ambition was to be a painter , and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith 's College School of Art . |
| 52 | During their courtship they believed that his true future was to be a poet . |
| 53 | I was ready to do my part but I wanted freedom to choose what that part was to be . |
| 54 | The 1959 Act was a law ‘ to regulate the evolution of private mores ’ , said the Report , begging the question of what particular weight was to be given to this word ‘ mores ’ . |
| 55 | The twist in the story of river and wetland management in our own times was to be one in which drainage men were faced with a new army ; an army which , unlike that of the commoners who had opposed their predecessors , was to grow stronger with every passing year . |