Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | He did not know who was to be detained or whether any were to be released . |
| 3 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
| 4 | In confirming the wealth of the district the subsidy exposed a scale of poverty that more closely approached what was to be found in the rest of Suffolk . |
| 5 | As the Second World War entered what was to be its final phase , Franco therefore stepped up his efforts to court Allied favour . |
| 6 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 7 | ‘ It 'd be a very odd individual who , when telephoned by his girlfriend and advised he was to be a father , failed to follow up on it , ’ Vitor growled , starting to walk again . |
| 8 | I did — with admiration , though I never assumed he was to be taken without criticism . |
| 9 | The Cold War had effectively decided what was to be done with Germany . |
| 10 | A few minutes before 5pm on Sunday , December 1st , all France it seemed was either holding its breath or , like team captain , Yannick Noah , was in prayer , as Forget , who had been well beaten in the opening rubber of the match by Andre Agassi , prepared to serve what was to be the final game of the 1991 competition . |
| 11 | made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday . |
| 12 | It remained to be seen what was to be done with Lilian . |
| 13 | In modern terms , he evaluated who was to be evangelised and was willing to take responsibility to go to them in the work of evangelism . |
| 14 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 15 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 16 | ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil . |
| 17 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 18 | His increasingly independent protégée locked herself away in a London dance studio for three weeks perfecting what was to be one of the most talked about dance routines of the pop year . |
| 19 | Students were perturbed that their new-found ‘ freedom ’ to express themselves was to be revoked by the old men running the country . |
| 20 | The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems . |
| 21 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 22 | In the years that followed I was to be in that lovely apartment many times visiting Jessica and Celia , who served the most delicious toasted bacon sandwiches and coffee that I have ever tasted . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , disappointment set in when we ventured home to find that the packaging contained a guitar , a separate tremolo and guarantee which was to be mailed to the USA . |
| 25 | He entered the room with the pop-eyed , lock-jawed expression of one who was expecting to hear a death-sentence from his commanding officer , but he cracked into smiles of various kinds when he heard we were to be his proteges . |
| 26 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard there were to be fireworks , ’ Sean said . |
| 28 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 29 | DAUGHTERS of the rich and famous had to be evacuated from their boarding school yesterday after the headmistress discovered it was to be the site of a massive rave party . |
| 30 | And when Sean Connery discovered he was to be filmed with 8ft sharks for Thunderball his reaction was : ‘ You must be joking — not bloody likely . ’ |