Example sentences of "[verb] was [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 2 | Nothing men had said or written was to be trusted . |
| 3 | A public revenue approach to costing was to be adopted , which meant focusing on the cost of services received , and excluding the cost of housing , personal living expenses and informal care from the main calculations . |
| 4 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 5 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 6 | He 'd had his go , if all that was rumoured was to be believed . |
| 7 | The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics . |
| 8 | The last thing she needed was to be found trespassing in the Baron 's private grounds . |
| 9 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 10 | The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison . |
| 11 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 12 | None of the schemes Curzon feared was to be accomplished . |
| 13 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 14 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 15 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 16 | In every way , Henry V acted as if all that he did was to be lasting in its effects . |
| 17 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 18 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 19 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 20 | Some wits even suggested that the answer to the labour shortage which the ‘ total war ’ measures were seeking to combat was to be found by closing down the Propaganda Ministry and combing out Party offices . |
| 21 | Under the Bill , whipping was to be abolished as a punishment ordered by the courts , being retained only in prisons ( but not in borstals ) as a penalty for the most serious infringements of prison discipline . |
| 22 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 23 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 24 | They were not to feed her or coax her , and any food refused was to be removed without comment . |
| 25 | But what they all wanted was to be cared for some of the time and often their tears were statements about that need . |
| 26 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 27 | The last thing Michael Harvey wanted was to be drawn into a personal discussion . |
| 28 | In 1970 , the last thing he wanted was to be reminded of Richard and the silly game they used to play . |
| 29 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 30 | My impression was that I was only getting a small part of his attention , that he was profoundly preoccupied and that the one thing he wanted was to be left alone . ’ |