Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the underground it was to be almost unknown . |
| 2 | When he arrived at the meeting it was to be told that he was suspended and barred from his office . |
| 3 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 4 | It tells a dark and passionate story of love and hatred , as a young bride elopes with her lover on the morning of the day she was to be married to her childhood sweetheart . |
| 5 | All red wine and vintage port would have been decanted ; port as early as possible on the day it was to be drunk ; claret two or three hours before drinking and kept at room temperature without a stopper in order to let it ‘ breathe ’ . |
| 6 | Every spring she was to be found visiting Fife . |
| 7 | What a thing it was to be loved . |