Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] were [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lady Sylvestre , was a grand niece of John Fisher , Bishop of Rochester and two of her sons were later to be knighted , William Dalison , by her first marriage , and Multon Lambarde . |
| 2 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 3 | However lukewarm the feelings of the citizens of York towards their southern overlord , his officers were there to be obeyed . |
| 4 | Powerful and famous gentlemen became regular visitors to the house — including , I remember , figures such as Lord Daniels , Professor Maynard Keynes , and Mr H. G. Wells , the renowned author , as well as others who , because they came ‘ off the record ’ , I should not name here — and they and his lordship were often to be found locked in discussion for hours on end . |
| 5 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |