Example sentences of "was to [be] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1749 , at a Vestry meeting it was decided that the Old Palace was to be the Workhouse for the villages of Birling , Luddesdown , Snodland and Halling , at which the poor of these parishes should be sent under the charge of John Seward , a carpenter of Halling . |
| 2 | At the Dixie Dude Ranch near the town of Bandera in the Texas hill country it was clear that my arrival was to be the excuse for a night out . |
| 3 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 4 | An agreement was later made with the administrations of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland that Lusaka was to be the centre for broadcasting to Africans in the three territories . |
| 5 | On Aug. 31 he signed the agreement with the government which was to be the basis for the registration of the free trade union Solidarity . |
| 6 | This was to be the formula for News on Sunday . |