Example sentences of "that [pron] was [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 2 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 3 | When we learned that she was not to be charged , the detective inspector carrying out the investigation told us : ‘ It 's the first I 've heard of it . ’ |
| 4 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 5 | She jumped to her feet , screaming in terror , certain that she was about to be trampled on . |
| 6 | He was frighteningly close , and Robbie , certain for a terrifying instant that she was about to be attacked , was trembling violently . |
| 7 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 8 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 9 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 10 | Then , ‘ Shall we have coffee first before we have a look around ? ’ he suggested , and Fabia immediately felt warm towards him that it was n't to be a ‘ straight in and out ’ trip . |
| 11 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |
| 12 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 13 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 14 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 15 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |
| 16 | Frank 's door was closed when he got back and there was a notice on it saying that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 17 | Charles realised with a jolt that he was not to be given a room in the château . |
| 18 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 19 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 20 | So Asshe had given instructions that he was not to be let in . |
| 21 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 22 | This sensitive , intelligent and finely-made man sometimes allowed her to sit in his room while he practised the piano , on the understanding that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 23 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 24 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 25 | The drummer claims he had no idea that he was about to be sacked and was shocked to hear the news . |
| 26 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 27 | The best evidence that the victim — the person towards whom the threats , abuses or insults were directed — did believe that he was about to be subjected to immediate violence would come from the mouth of the victim himself , but it is not necessary to produce a bystander as a witness in court to prove the point ; it can be a matter for inference from the narrative of events presented to the court . |
| 28 | He had seemed thrown for a moment , as though it had genuinely slipped his mind that he was about to be married . |