Example sentences of "[be] to be its [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may not matter very much what claims the Association makes for itself but one would hope that co-operation and not confrontation is to be its approach , and the making of false claims can only antagonise the Law .
2 Now that this good party of concerted artistes is safely ensconced in the vessel that is to be its forward conducting medium , let all good-thinking people wish it the Speed of God and safe from the influence of diverse foreign bodies that lurk in animated suspension in this murky putrescence of Thames .
3 I was to be its diarist .
4 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 .
5 The system of control established by Plowden was to be known as the PESC system , since the Public Expenditure Survey Committee was to be its centrepiece .
6 The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working .
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