Example sentences of "[det] [noun] was to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the life of this station was to be short . |
| 2 | This pretension was to be dear to the heart of Philip Augustus . |
| 3 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union would only permit a united Germany if that state was to be neutral , the argument went , and that way lay the old nightmare of a Germany swinging between East and West . |
| 5 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 6 | Mr. Walker : I think that he should explain that virtually all the money for that project was to be public expenditure . |
| 7 | But the format , almost more than the content , interested him : each front cover on each copy was to be different , and the magazine was contained , loose-leafed , in a bag , inspired , he thought , by Andy Warhol , and it was what he felt an underground magazine should be . |