Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he 'd come to tell her he 'd changed his mind about his decision that she was to be his ‘ girlfriend ’ until Travis was over her , she mused , and , since courtesy cost nothing , she invited him in . |
| 2 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 3 | On the basis that it was to be a ‘ one-off ’ , and following conclusive proof that it could read DCA/RFT files directly off the company network , the syste was allowed . |
| 4 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 5 | Bank workers went on strike on Feb. 4 and occupied the headquarters of the National Savings and Insurance Bank in the capital , Buenos Aires , in protest at the announcement that it was to be privatized , Cavallo withdrawing this intention on Feb. 5 . |
| 6 | It is probably no accident that they were to be found in most classes of urban or other settlements and in military vici . |
| 7 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 8 | On the night of their escape , Moses had commanded the Jews to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the doorposts of their homes as a sign that they were to be ‘ passed over ’ by the Angel of Death , who was to bring death to the first born of every Egyptian family . |
| 9 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 10 | The individuals concerned , including particularly Harold Wilson and Roy Jenkins , were persuaded to take part in the belief that it was to be a serious piece of film-making . |
| 11 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 12 | The objective of the operation was to arrest Mr with the proviso that it was to be done with the safety of the public to be paramount and that the safety of the police officers and Mr was also to be considered . |
| 13 | He had warned many Champenois that they were to be ready to follow when so commanded and , he wrote , ‘ they willingly agreed ’ . |
| 14 | He died suddenly 5 October 1918 at Half Moon Street , London , but even then his delicate sense of humour did not desert him : he left instructions in his will that he was to be cremated — a most unusual request for a Roman Catholic — and his ashes taken to Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and placed within Oscar Wilde 's tomb . |
| 15 | Would every ‘ past service ’ raise an implication that it was to be paid for , so as to allow action on a subsequent promise of payment ? |
| 16 | Stevie had received a tip that he was to be featured . |
| 17 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 18 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 19 | The disciples were told , before , ten days before they received the Holy Spirit that they were to be witnesses unto him . |
| 20 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 21 | The future of Britain 's longest running chart show , Top Of The Pops , was in doubt tonight after a report that it was to be axed . |
| 22 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 23 | Over a five-year period Kiselev transformed the administration of the lands between the Pruth and the Danube to such an extent that it was to be hard , thereafter , for the sultan or outsiders to prevent the eventual emergence of an independent Romania . |
| 24 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |