Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was no longer to be an article of decoration , however . |
| 2 | Briefly Bodie explained what was going to happen : that Liz was going to be smuggled into the house from the taxi that would take the family home , and she was there just to be on the safe side , in case the man who had killed their two pets came back late at night . |
| 3 | ‘ Lydia , are you sure she was all right to be left alone ? ’ |
| 4 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 5 | After 1870 they were once again to be undermined , not least by the fear of the growing movements of the working classes . |
| 6 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 7 | Once returned however , they were never again to be used as coronation regalia . |
| 8 | In the city , for example , there was the thought that it was n't ours , it was just there to be exploited . |
| 9 | It was too soon to be fitzAlan , she told herself , reason overwhelming her first impulsive hope . |
| 10 | Even so , it was never again to be so easy . |
| 11 | It was enough just to be with him . |
| 12 | He was just about to be attacked by a horde of anxious faces when he felt himself being gently shaken . |
| 13 | He was most often to be found in that jazz Mecca , Dobell 's Record Shop in Tower Street , where he was happy to reminisce about earlier times and to discuss who played what on the records from his heyday . |
| 14 | Despite Harry 's obvious attraction for most of the unattached girls in the room , it was in Cora-Beth 's company he was most often to be seen . |
| 15 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 16 | He was very soon to be forced to face the fact that things had moved on since 1939 . |
| 17 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 18 | Certainly he was never again to be as actively interested in the company as he was in the late 1940s . |
| 19 | Cagney 's class credentials were as impeccable as those of Bickford and Beery but he was never really to be a worker ; he was a city man and it was the pace , wit , style , and electricity of the city that Cagney now seized on as his hallmark . |
| 20 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |