Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 2 | Still virginal in my dealings with the music press , I was to be despatched to the Reading Festival to cover this bastion of the British rock calendar for NME . |
| 3 | " It was what my mother said I was to be called before she died . |
| 4 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 5 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
| 6 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 7 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 8 | I once had two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 9 | I was to be seated next to Prince Edward at dinner . |
| 10 | I was to be confirmed . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 12 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 13 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 14 | ‘ I could almost weep when I think how pleased I was to be returning to England . |
| 15 | I was to be incarcerated for another two days and nights on a diet of three assorted pills and a curious fizzy powder in a paper wrapper , presented every few hours with instructions in mime . |
| 16 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 17 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 18 | I was to be interviewed in New York , en route to Rio , by an agent who specialised in placing people like me . |
| 19 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 20 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 21 | ‘ So I was to be delivered back to that fool , was I ? |
| 22 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 23 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 24 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 25 | It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately . |
| 26 | ‘ And if , by some magic wand , I was to be offered an overnight cure for just one of them , I am not sure which I would choose . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand the unequivocal wording of the promise and the particular path of demand management which was to be followed were indeed due to a growing intellectual conviction at the centre of the government machine that full employment need not involve root-and-branch change in the economy and society . |
| 28 | Reaffirmed their decision of 3rd November that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote , preferably on the Report stage of the Bill in the House of Commons ; and agreed that Ministers who dissented from the advice which was to be tendered in accordance with Conclusion above should be free , if they so desired , to vote for the abolition of the death penalty , though they should refrain from expressing in debate views contrary to that advice ; … |
| 29 | THE LORD PRESIDENT invited the Cabinet to review their decision that Ministers should be free to vote against the advice which was to be given on this issue by the responsible Minister as representing the considered view of the Government . |
| 30 | Although the staff had not appreciated it , the listings of London events were quite crucial , and had given It a stranglehold on the London market , which was to be broken . |