Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] to be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were to be four principal elements to that strategy : ( 1 ) a substantial reduction in taxes ; ( 2 ) heavy cuts in the rate of growth of public spending ; ( 3 ) deregulation reform ; and ( 4 ) the establishment of a sound monetary policy . |
| 2 | My Lord erm there are er in my submission er a likely there were to be five key issues for determination in a court of this trial . |
| 3 | He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . " |
| 4 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |
| 5 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |