Example sentences of "it [was/were] to [be] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be her home for a year , sharing it initially with Laura Greig , an old schoolchum and now one of her ladies-in-waiting , and Sophie Kimball , the daughter of the then Conservative Member of Parliament , Marcus Kimball . |
| 2 | The Air Staff sought battlbattle-winningormance in an aircraft that would do virtually everything in all weathers from long-range nuclear deterrent strike , through all the phases of reconnaissance , down to close battlefield support for the Army , almost regardless of cost since it was to be their capital aircraft . |
| 3 | It was their first major flight away from the barn , and of course we did n't know then it was to be their last . |
| 4 | It was to be our first encounter with the " Bisus " , a bizarre peripatetic sect of transvestite and largely hermaphrodite Bugis priests who , it later transpired , were performing the traditional trance rite to accompany rice-planting . |
| 5 | It is a tour de force ; for the sculptor , who died shortly after its erection , it was to be his last monument . |
| 6 | He was probably also aware that it was to be his last on any comparable scale . |
| 7 | It was to be his last substantial prose work , the final fruit of the project which he had been contemplating since the middle of the Second World War . |
| 8 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 9 | ‘ You ate that as if it was to be your last meal on earth . ’ |