Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 2 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 3 | The forthcoming debate promised to be a highly uncomfortable occasion with my defence alternating between ‘ no decisions have been taken ’ and ‘ wait and see ’ . |
| 4 | PRAGUE to Zurich promised to be a better-than-average test drive for a new model . |
| 5 | New England , I knew , would be ablaze with colour in autumn , so the drive promised to be a spectacular one . |
| 6 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 7 | On the first occasion , I remembered , I had found a highly personable stray kitten and before the week was up had delivered it to what promised to be a good new home adjacent to that jokey castle . |
| 8 | At first , the war seemed a long way away , and the Otago CA reported that the 1914–15 summer promised to be a most successful one , with the ‘ services of world-renowned player , J.N. Crawford ’ ensuring that Otago cricket would be second to none in New Zealand . |
| 9 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 10 | Expanding your market by selling to schools promised to be a controversial session , and did not disappoint . |
| 11 | Caught in what promised to be a whirlpool of conflicting dogmatic beliefs , Eric , who did n't care either way so long as I was happy , went off to see Mgr O'Flaherty , a well-known priest who had given help and shelter to large numbers of escaping prisoners-of-war and was now an important figure in the Holy Office . |
| 12 | It promised to be a microcosm of Lancashire life in the depressed ‘ thirties . |
| 13 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 14 | On the contrary , their objective was not to overthrow the Franco regime but to adapt it to meet the demands of what promised to be a more international future . |
| 15 | This promised to be a difficult task ; hence the need for professional economists in the cabinet . |
| 16 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 17 | It was widely known that this promised to be a vintage year for books , thanks to an amazingly generous benefaction from a special friend of St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 18 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 19 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 20 | He pretended to be a qualified gynaecologist , although he had not passed the relevant professional exams . |
| 21 | Hugh Griffiths , an outsize and very grand Welsh actor with eyebrows like handlebar grips , was there in full bucolic magnificence : there was a Welsh harpist who pretended to be a ghost , Rachel Roberts teamed up with Sybil as ‘ Lady Something or other ’ and they gossiped , knitted the acting village together , went on stage wearing wristwatches and nail varnish . |
| 22 | She set off at once , and at the police station pretended to be a shy , frightened girl . |
| 23 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 24 | he pretended to be a cuckoo-clock , |
| 25 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 26 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 27 | To Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717–18 ) , son of a Saxon cobbler , who rose to be a friend of cardinals and custodian of their books and antiquities , belongs the honour of having been the first and , in some ways , the most influential of these " thorough-going Romantics " . |
| 28 | By Dec. 28 the pro-government Tajik People 's Front had taken control of the border Pyanj region , reported to be a rebel stronghold . |
| 29 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 30 | She also added , without being asked , that Annunciata was not , in Pen 's opinion , found to be a substitute for his Lily and that the maid had fallen ill with fever soon after Wilson left and had been useless to anyone . |