Example sentences of "it was [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 2 | It was evidently to be a very reserved one . |
| 3 | It was also to be Andrew Knight 's last executive action : he is becoming a non-executive deputy chairman as Conrad Black , holding 80 per cent of the shares , assumes daily control . |
| 4 | It was also to be the largest aircraft ever built in Britain . |
| 5 | It was also to be a station for the motor-car age , situated on ample land with large car-parks . |
| 6 | This appointment was unique , and was the only instance of its kind — it was also to be the last for over a century , because Edward A. Kirk was deaf . |
| 7 | It was also to be used to feed the market-research obsession . |
| 8 | The EDC was to be a military organisation , but for many it was also to be a further step along the road to European integration . |
| 9 | It was also to be hoped , her father told her nanny prior to their departure , that by the time his daughter was returned to Brougham , the memory of her mother would already be fading . |
| 10 | It was also to be assumed the four Orientals themselves would have to be faced , as they had no way of knowing that two of them were already dead , thanks to the actions of Sherman and the Prophet himself . |
| 11 | It was also to be a welcoming home for John and Angela , who had come down to watch the final round and were staying at the Bell Hotel . |
| 12 | It was later to be alleged that he deliberately falsified his nationality , claiming to be English when he was not . |
| 13 | It was later to be challenged in urban Spain — not merely that of the great city but also the sizeable southern agrarian pueblo — because his parishioners were confronted with rival ideologies and because the priests tended to side with the notables . |
| 14 | We do n't know for certain but it was probably to be given to you on your arrival . ’ |
| 15 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 16 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 17 | It was then to be infilled with debris and sealed with puddled clay to prevent water falling into workings below . |
| 18 | The Headmaster 's House had stood in the middle of fields , but it was now to be surrounded by educational plant . |
| 19 | In the future , town planning was not just about scheme preparation for coordinated development , or the rational control of land use , or even spatial strategies for cities ; it was now to be involved in regional economic affairs , though just how had yet to be demonstrated . |
| 20 | It was there to be exploited . |
| 21 | Elvis — that particular musical agglomeration — never belonged to anyone in particular , then ; he — it was there to be fought for . |
| 22 | This did n't last long , however , as one customer thought it was there to be consumed ! |
| 23 | It was there to be used , insofar as you had it ; and when you were short , you worked a little harder , and made good the deficiency . |
| 24 | She saw no sequence in what was happening , and no coherence , but she knew it was there to be seen , if only she could achieve the right angle of vision . |
| 25 | And if I had needed proof , it was there to be seen after . |
| 26 | It was perhaps to be expected that during this post-independence period TANU and its politicians in Parliament would want to see the nation establish itself in a symbolic sense . |
| 27 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 28 | And I knew what it was like to be tired and weary , but I knew that if I trusted in God and spent time with him then he would renew my strength and I could carry on . |
| 29 | One of the qualities which I think you alluded to earlier was the quality of imagination , to the ability of , to actually feel what it was like to be in a particular place at |
| 30 | In future , it was always to be the same . |