Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One granddaughter of a carpenter 's widow ‘ adored my grandmother , whom I seldom saw : my greatest reward was to be allowed to brush grandmother 's long silken white hair . ’ |
| 2 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 3 | My first ambition was to be a policeman , and then a private detective . |
| 4 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 5 | It was just as well that he did n't know my long-term aim was to be a pro golfer . |
| 6 | However I learned from Daphne 's friend that my errant partner was to be discharged on 20 February 1919 , leaving me with little or no time to balance the books . |
| 7 | My new creation was to be free of all that . |
| 8 | Then in the Southern my next prayer was to be home for the boy 's Christmas holidays from school and I got home : it was even more special . |
| 9 | This was enough for Cassie to be getting on with , but soon another of her private fantasies was to be shattered . |
| 10 | In all these intricate ways , the press became the channel par excellence through which political debate was to be conducted and political society came into existence and survived . |
| 11 | At this point the school had to make a decision about the priority which this activity was to be given in the school 's development . |
| 12 | This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed . |
| 13 | Before television and feminine liberation , when the men were out drinking or at football , the women on their off-duty moments were usually to be seen at the window , where their social life was to be found . |
| 14 | The military commitment by France began with the announcement on Aug. 6 that its naval presence was to be reinforced . |
| 15 | What he says they were intended for and what their actual use was to be , were , I suspect , quite different . ’ |
| 16 | In 1990 , Debbie 's proposal to curate a collection of artwork about childbirth was accepted by A Space , one of Canada 's oldest parallel alternative artist-run centres and arts publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A. A grant from the Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada and from scattered points in the U.S.A. Faced with a tremendous volume of committed , powerful work from every discipline , her curatorial decision was to be inclusive rather than exclusive ; to show-case the incredible diversity of personalities , experiences and methods that have been employed to address this long repressed subject matter . |
| 17 | Women were to be in charge of domestic morality , and their moral influence was to be ensured by the rule of indissoluble monogamous marriage . |
| 18 | A wave of misery swept over Cassie as she wondered if the last of her little dreams was to be shattered as cruelly as these other two ; the dream in which Johnny hated and despised his wife ; the one in which he planned to divorce her and marry Cassie instead . |
| 19 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 20 | The question hammered in her brain and her great desire was to be alone . |
| 21 | On the resumed hearing the justices made an order in terms different from those agreed in that the girl 's contact with her older half-sister was to be supervised and the prohibition of contact between the girl and her father was expressed to continue until after the review by the local authority six months later . |
| 22 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 23 | Her cool beauty was to be the stuff of Oz covers and underground posters . |
| 24 | Her immediate thought was to be much concerned about her job , and then very much concerned that , without this splendidly paying job , she would be unable to pay her share of the mortgage . |
| 25 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |
| 26 | Her highest ambition was to be by the end of the day simply acceptable , to have done no rushing or crashing , committed no vehemence . |
| 27 | But he explained that the SAC had learned towards the end of last year that its own grant was to be increased by only 2 per cent . |
| 28 | For Miss Green her new area was to be along a ‘ corridor ’ accessible from railway stations on the Kettering , Huntingdon , Peterborough line , in ‘ … a poor county , thinly populated , neglected by all organisations other than Women 's Institutes … ’ . |
| 29 | I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads . |
| 30 | ‘ He told that her next responsibility was to be loyal to her husband above all else . |