Example sentences of "[be] to [be] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Tom ’ Ayliffe , who was to be the last miller .
2 It was to be the last occasion on which many of his friends saw him , for he and Tasker did not return from that 1982 Expedition .
3 Such measures brought it to heel for the time being ; but this was to be the last occasion before the end of the old monarchy when the government won a real victory over this increasingly dangerous opponent .
4 Although neither party knew it , the Cherbourg visit was to be the last state meeting between the sovereigns .
5 It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds .
6 Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first .
7 made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday .
8 Barely two weeks after the Jarama carnage , Franco launched what was to be the last Nationalist attempt to take Madrid , with an attack to the north-east of the city , in the province of Guadalajara .
9 But just once — it was to be the last time — we did get back .
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