Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . |
| 2 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 4 | It worked , but I thought he was going to lose his mind when we found de Raimes locked in his solar and you were nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | " 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | They were nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 10 | That summer , they were surely to be found |
| 11 | England defender Pallister was then handed the responsibility of keeping United in continental competition but , just as they had failed in a penalty shoot-out against Videoton in the Cup Winners ' Cup in 1985 , so they were again to be engulfed in misery . |
| 12 | They were astonished when we said ‘ Yes ’ Everyone remembers the holiday chalets — ‘ our little houses ’ as they were soon to be called . |
| 13 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 14 | They were now to be trusted to use their own discretion . |
| 15 | The same case could , of course , have been made about listeners ' attitudes to the number and length of speeches to which they were now to be subjected . |
| 16 | If they were ever to be revealed , then we would have a much more complete picture of Shostakovich the man . |
| 17 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 18 | Some of the regulations from Brussels would destroy jobs as surely as the policies of the Labour party would if they were ever to be followed . |
| 19 | They were often to be found operating shops and farms . |
| 20 | They were there to be beseeched and entreated for their protection and aid in adversity , but what if they failed ? |
| 21 | They tended to face north and west when they should have faced south and east , because they were there to be looked at , not to be looked from , and the windows of the mansion faced in the contrary direction . |
| 22 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |