Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition to the regulation considered here was to be expected from property owners … since it intruded on their interests not only directly , but also indirectly through the additional taxation necessary to finance its implementation . |
| 2 | What was decided there was to be binding on all . |
| 3 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 4 | She was shocked and upset and what she needed most was to be allowed to rest , alone . |
| 5 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |
| 6 | To think so was to be conned by the art dealers . |
| 7 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |