Example sentences of "this [noun] be to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 2 | It was not an errand she would enjoy , because she knew the sorrow it would cause , but her specific task in this household was to be the eyes and ears of her dear companion . |
| 3 | The most bizarre manifestation of this disregard was to be the purges that swept across Soviet society in the middle 1930s . |
| 4 | This dog was to be the foundation of the modern type of Rottweiler in the UK . |
| 5 | ( After many changes of partners , this firm was to be the nucleus of the later Barclays Bank Ltd . ) |
| 6 | Advertised in 1930 as a joint publication under the title Logik , Sprache , Philosophie , this book was to be the first volume in the series Die Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung . |
| 7 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |
| 8 | The main instrument for this purpose was to be the Polytechnics and the White Paper provisionally recommended that 28 be established , to which two more were added in the following year , making 30 in all . |
| 9 | All this turned out to have long-term significance for Charles the Bald , for much of this region was to be the central zone of his future kingdom . |