Example sentences of "[pron] [be] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’ |
| 2 | And it was because you told her I was to be the baby 's legal mother when the adoption went through . ’ |
| 3 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 4 | ‘ I was to be the poet , he the novelist . |
| 5 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 8 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 9 | In the eighteenth century the professions , which were to be the core of the nineteenth-century middle class , brought some social esteem but little economic power . |
| 10 | The Act empowered the Secretary of State to put a limit on the amount if in his opinion the amount proposed to be raised was ‘ excessive ’ according to principles he determined which were to be the same for all authorities falling within the same class . |
| 11 | The administration 's fiscal 1991 and fiscal 1992 deficit totals both excluded the costs of US military deployment and operations in the Gulf , which were to be the subject of a separate submission to Congress later in the month . |
| 12 | Thirty kilometres from Paris , it is this village of 6,000 inhabitants which is to be the scene of an ambitious project in illusionism which seeks to recreate the world of the Impressionists . |
| 13 | Hence if the construction of the building which is to be the catering premises shuts out light to the adjoining premises it thereby infringes the rights of the neighbours and gives rise to a cause of action for contravention of their easement of light . |
| 14 | Their outputs are interpreted as a 6-bit signed binary number , which is to be the setting of the steering wheel . |
| 15 | When a new Mind Map is created , the opening screen presents the user with an ellipse , which is to be the ‘ focus ’ . |
| 16 | When a new Mind Map is created , the opening screen presents the user with an ellipse , which is to be the ‘ focus ’ . |
| 17 | The other nine ran away ’ — former bare-knuckle champion Lennie McLean , on his violent past which is to be the subject of a film . |
| 18 | That problem was recognised last year and has led to the introduction of the year-long pilot project which is to be the subject of independent monitoring . |
| 19 | As a first example , suppose we test the effect of some treatment , X , on pairs of identical twins , randomly allocating which is to receive X and which is to be the control . |
| 20 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |
| 21 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 22 | The second foundational feature of the Birmingham scheme was the creation of a Juvenile Employment Exchange and Bureau under the direction of the Board of Trade , but housed on education premises ( an important fact for those who wished to preserve the ‘ educational ’ nature of the transition ) , together with ‘ the continuous co-operation and interchange of views ’ , which was to be the basis of a real partnership between exchange officials and the LEA . |
| 23 | Later that month the British Pacific Fleet 's ( BPF ) main strike force sailed from Trincomalee for Sydney , which was to be the main Fleet base for Pacific operations . |
| 24 | Of particular importance here was the formation of the Britons Society in 1918 which was to be the immediate precursor of British racial fascism . |
| 25 | From a national movement designed to revolutionize the political structure of the nation , the BUF had degenerated into an organization which became increasingly dependent on a localized campaign playing on anti-immigrant racial populist themes , which was to be the main pattern of British fascism from then onwards . |
| 26 | But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career . |
| 27 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |
| 28 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 29 | At the Salon des Indépendants all these artists were grouped together in Salle 45 , together with the work of Morgan Russel and MacDonald Wright , who called themselves ‘ Synchromists ’ and somewhat pretentiously purported to be representatives of a new school which was to be the culmination of all European painting ; they were , in fact , rapidly absorbed into the more vital Orphist movement . |
| 30 | 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 . |