Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 2 | In spite of its obvious imitation of continental movements it was to be a profoundly British variant , with social and political roots in domestic problems . |
| 3 | In this society it follows that real talent goes unrewarded and unflinching purity of soul is automatically derided — on both these counts I am to be numbered among the punished , especially in regard to material goods and services , financial security , the trust and love of friendship , and the divinely counselled companionship of wife and family . |
| 4 | For the following two weeks she was to be part of an ENSA company touring remote army camps in Wales . |
| 5 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 6 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 7 | The class spent considerable time examining these photographs , attempting to anticipate the kind of personalities they were to be working with . |
| 8 | What we have to do is decide what kinds of technologies they are to be provided with , how far into the future they are expected to go , and how the whole experiment is to be organised . |
| 9 | In most instances it is to be expected that ‘ NT ’ and ‘ BT ’ statements should be accompanied by their inverse . |
| 10 | Legacies and trusts are the same : if there is any deficiency in the law of legacies it is to be supplied from the law of trusts , and vice versa . |
| 11 | Riven , remembering the Rime Giant 's attempt on his life in Ralarth Rorim , could not help but wonder how many more times he was to be the focus of a battle . |
| 12 | I believe that the spirit chooses which lessons it is to be faced with during the course of a particular lifetime . |
| 13 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 14 | HEALTH AUTHORITIES will be expected to adhere to the ‘ firm ’ budgets they are to be given for patients ' drugs , Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , said yesterday . |
| 15 | This increase in the range of assets available to societies was related to the extension of the services they were to be permitted to offer . |
| 16 | Each , it is true , has her own perspective : for France , it is about cocking a snook at the Americans , for Germany about playing the leading role in a superstate , for Italy about compensating for her chronic democratic weaknesses ; for others it is to be able to benefit from German largesse . |