Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was [prep] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | As the Second World War entered what was to be its final phase , Franco therefore stepped up his efforts to court Allied favour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I did — with admiration , though I never assumed he was to be taken without criticism . |
| 8 | The Cold War had effectively decided what was to be done with Germany . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It remained to be seen what was to be done with Lilian . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Students were perturbed that their new-found ‘ freedom ’ to express themselves was to be revoked by the old men running the country . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Barber then began what was to be a 43 year long career with May & Baker , as research chemist under Dr A. J. Ewins , FRS , carrying out process research in support of the manufacture of products such as neoarsphenamine ( NAB ) for treating syphilis . |
| 24 | In about 1823 he began what was to be his principal life 's work , the translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Persian . |
| 25 | The Works had now reached what was to be its zenith as regards workshops , covering an area of 80 acres of which 37 were workshops and offices , making it the largest in the UK solely devoted to carriage building and repair . |
| 26 | But no woods were to be felled or venison taken in the districts claimed to be disafforested until the perambulations had been notified to the Council , which would decide what was to be done . |
| 27 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 28 | That would keep them , perhaps , in some cheap lodging-house until she could decide what was to be done . |
| 29 | They 'd found out MacQuillan was buying guns for terrorists , so they decided he was to be stopped . ’ |
| 30 | He decided it was worth being polite . |