Example sentences of "[was/were] to [be] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | More junior staff came , who were to be a great help to us . |
| 2 | The new latrine in its fairly protected situation , and the newly appointed shithouse clerk was to be a great boost to Commando morale during the days ahead . |
| 3 | It dawned upon Ruth with some surprise that the outing was to be a great treat for Miss Beard , and that in spite of all her high-faluting talk , not many of those came her way . |
| 4 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
| 5 | He was to be a great king , for thirty-five years the master-politician of Western Christendom , able to overwhelm or out-manoeuvre all his rivals . |
| 6 | From Kintu sprang all the Masai , whose life was to be a great odyssey . |
| 7 | Knowledge of his locality was to be a great boon in 1749 when , as master of The American ( owned by Christopher Scott , a Hull merchant ) , he was able to recognize the coastline at Nantucket after a severe storm had blown the vessel off course . |
| 8 | This was to be a great success for him , being the first ever history of an English county . |