Example sentences of "[det] [be] to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to be the new club shop where we hope to sell T-shirts , calendars and fluffy bookmarks in the club 's colours . |
| 2 | Despite this bad start , this was to be the only meeting the unit was to have with Müncheberg 's Messerschmitts , for their time in Sicily was almost at an end . |
| 3 | The Whigs had recovered somewhat by 1705 , giving the Tories a good run for their money , and they actually won the Election in 1708 , although this was to be the only General Election they were to win under Anne . |
| 4 | This was to be the legal basis for the armed detachments of workers who were supposed to confiscate surplus grain and the hoards of speculators . |
| 5 | A significant proportion of local notables joined the popular revolution in order to master anarchy : this was to be the classic pattern of revolution in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | This was to be the divisional point . |
| 7 | This was to be the major stumbling block in difficult and often angry negotiations , in which Stewart Mason played a key part — anxious to avoid a precedent for unclassified degrees in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Surely this was to be the winning throw , but , oh disaster , gloom and stress , surely it was n't . |
| 9 | Henceforth , and unlike the earlier period , this was to be the dominant aspect of the rite . |
| 10 | With eight editions published by 1964 , this was to be the main connection linking Nesta Webster to the development of the fascist conspiracy theory . |
| 11 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 12 | These were to be the major elements of the action project . |
| 13 | If this latter is to be the ultimate model , with the student 's role being somewhere between that of a battery hen and a laboratory rat , then surely most teachers would wish to have no part in its evolution . |