Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 2 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 3 | And it was like being new to prison all over again , the rules and regulations were quite different . |
| 4 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 5 | But who was to be general in his place ? ’ |
| 6 | But there was to be Norman Lamont and a tr and treasury ministers , three or four of them . |