Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq 's nationalization of its oil industry was to be a step-by-step process , but the critical step had to wait until 1972 . |
| 2 | In the poem Frost at Midnight Coleridge announced that his child Hartley was to be educated according to this theory , and Wordsworth , in writing about his own childhood , makes out a case that he was an example of the same process : The Prelude describes Wordsworth 's formative years from this point of view , and though the facts may be correct , the selection and emphasis of the facts is open to question . |
| 3 | It was a colleague , Everard Bone , who with his wife Mildred was to be one of the guests at the dinner party that evening . |
| 4 | For the present , all that need be noticed is that the purpose of Alexander 's letter was to convey a distinct papal command to Lanfranc that the monastic community in his cathedral church was to be preserved . |
| 5 | He probably studied at Oxford , though the evidence is indirect : his executors endowed 200 marks to establish a loan-chest for the masters and scholars and , no doubt because he was a benefactor , his death anniversary was to be observed by the university . |