Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] to be " 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 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 .
4 Her mother at one time took in a lodger — and she was later to be raped by the man .
5 The Japanese almost certainly knew the Australians were in the area , for a young Chinaman had served food to officers passing through Railaco , and he was later to be ‘ shot at sight ’ after his Japanese contacts were discovered .
6 The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one .
7 The stromatoporoids , for example , had largely gone and the new corals had not yet learned to build reefs ( in fact the Rugosa were never to remember the habit and it was only to be relearned by the Scleractinia of the Mesozoic ) .
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