Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy . |
| 3 | Then I thought it might be an in-body experience — that my soul was to be confined to my body for some sinister theological reason. , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Though Hobson argued that the new imperialism was irrational from the standpoint of the peaceful commercial nation , he did not believe that its source was to be found merely in an irrational aggressiveness on the part of peoples or Governments . |
| 6 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 7 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |
| 8 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 9 | How would he act if he knew that his career was to be made into fiction , to serve as an object lesson , and a name of opprobrium , to the generations that followed him ? |
| 10 | Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 11 | As we began to climb there could be no doubt that our destination was to be some place in the hills . |
| 12 | But I would of thought that your solicitor was to be here to represent you . |
| 13 | And I would have thought that your solicitor was to be here to represent you . |