Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] to have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were brought in after being taken from a village near Mostar They were originally to have been helicoptered out but that became too dangerous for the volunteer pilots . |
| 2 | The story 's climax , had he reached it , was obviously to have been the outcome of his meeting with the widow 's beautiful and gifted daughter . |
| 3 | Victory over the disintegrating Manchu dynasty was perhaps to have been expected ; victory over Imperial Russia was quite sensational . |
| 4 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 5 | He was also to have been presented with the freedom of seven other British cities and districts , including Dundee and Midlothian . |
| 6 | The volume was originally to have been illustrated by Stanfield ; after his withdrawal from fear of anti-Catholic bias in the book , Samuel Palmer was commissioned , and provided 4 vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 7 | Paine 's successor was originally to have been Mr. W.H. Hardie , who had joined the staff in 1934 . |
| 8 | In the Baigneuse the far side of the figure is pulled round into the picture plane so that the body becomes unnaturally broad ; and the pentimenti show that the figure was originally to have been even squatter and broader . |
| 9 | For example , in the case of the West Midlands RMC , which was originally planned to have consisted of North Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , it is now based only on the former ; and , in contrast , the London RMC , which was originally to have been based on the Polytechnic of Central London , now encompasses five additional institutions . |
| 10 | Collecting rubbish , he thought , would remind him of how fortunate he was even to have been on the circuit . |