Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 2 | Apart from the outside toilet there was another indoor one which was to be shared by everybody else . |
| 3 | We should pause , as we did for his brother William , to contemplate Thomas Titford 's state in 1786 : a widower , with one 17-year old daughter who seemed healthy enough , one who was to be constantly gripped by fits , and at least three children previously dead in infancy . |
| 4 | Milhaez cradled his daughter in his lap , the one who was to be a doctor in England . |
| 5 | Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters . |