Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 2 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 3 | When we learned that she was not to be charged , the detective inspector carrying out the investigation told us : ‘ It 's the first I 've heard of it . ’ |
| 4 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 5 | She jumped to her feet , screaming in terror , certain that she was about to be trampled on . |
| 6 | He was frighteningly close , and Robbie , certain for a terrifying instant that she was about to be attacked , was trembling violently . |
| 7 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 8 | " You accepted the fact that you were there to be developed , improved and polished , " Eva comments , even if in her case she once took it rather too literally . |
| 9 | As soon as you saw that you were about to be struck , you stood at attention and waited for the blows . |
| 10 | The snuffles and crunches of some unknown thing convinced my grandad that we were about to be mugged . |
| 11 | Roughly halfway between the target and the coast the rear gunner signalled that we were about to be attacked and my ham-fisted evasive action severed the repair that the Night engineer had made to the aileron controls . |
| 12 | Thus all things were bearing an equal strain and we were westward-bound when a frantic signal from the rear gunner warned me that we were about to be attacked again , and my heavy-handed evasive action severed the aileron control repair . |
| 13 | The rumours were fanned , I suppose , by the fact that we were often to be seen together at professional and social engagements away from the studios . |
| 14 | It was greatly taken amiss that they were not to be seen in the bombed vicinities . |
| 15 | Eventually he tied it down and sat muttering about it being typical behaviour of suitcases and that they were not to be trusted . |
| 16 | This last speciality may reflect the much earlier skills of the Franks , the Frankish swords were of such good quality that the Emperor Charlemagne issued an edict that they were not to be exported . |
| 17 | She came downstairs , hung on the wall a portrait of himself that Robin had painted , and his easel below it ; and gave orders that they were not to be removed . |
| 18 | Although the Commission was assigned additional police officers to assist in its inquiries it was clearly implied that they were not to be used for investigating covert intelligence activities . |
| 19 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 20 | Then , ‘ Shall we have coffee first before we have a look around ? ’ he suggested , and Fabia immediately felt warm towards him that it was n't to be a ‘ straight in and out ’ trip . |
| 21 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |
| 22 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 23 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 24 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 25 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |
| 26 | Frank 's door was closed when he got back and there was a notice on it saying that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 27 | Charles realised with a jolt that he was not to be given a room in the château . |
| 28 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 29 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 30 | So Asshe had given instructions that he was not to be let in . |