Example sentences of "was to [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remained silent , unused as it was to being asked for its opinions . |
| 2 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 3 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 4 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 5 | This was to be seen with more telling effect in the coal dispute which started some 6 months later . |
| 6 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 7 | Each time she finished a film , she would tell Mum the title and once it reached the cinema , Mrs Pilling was to be seen at every performance . |
| 8 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 9 | If Lamarckism was discredited , then some entirely new mechanism would have to be suggested if evolution was to be seen as a truly natural process . |
| 10 | When the erstwhile All Blacks ' captain , Wayne Shelford , was asked on Saturday evening if the appointment of Gavin Hastings , assuming it transpired , was to be seen as a victory for the Celtic fringe , he answered simply that it would have an awful lot more to do with his having some decidedly impressive credentials . |
| 11 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 12 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
| 13 | On a recent flight over the area a crane was to be seen alongside the existing hangars , and the timber-framing for the first of the new houses was already taking shape . |
| 14 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 15 | The Expert stated that the proof of the argument was to be seen in many photos of Arabians . |
| 16 | Its uniform was to be seen in the massed ranks who paraded in Hyde Park and at Olympia or the White City . |
| 17 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 18 | For this section of the leadership , the Soviet past was to be seen in a much more positive light , while a much greater emphasis was laid upon discipline and central control in political and economic affairs . |
| 19 | The true face of the Hermetic philosopher was to be seen in the final picture of the Mutus Liber where the adept and his mystic sister raised their fingers to their lips in the gesture of the secret . |
| 20 | In Sweden 's case the move was to be seen in the context of the government 's declared intent to apply for EC membership ( the date for this application was subsequently set formally for July 1 , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | The same intensity of punctilio was to be seen in the treatment of foreign diplomats in Russia . |
| 22 | BR 's 1973 ‘ Interim Rail Strategy ’ , which had initially received government approval , had proposed a doubling of the rate of investment up to 1981 , and its impact was to be seen in the rise in staff numbers by nearly 6,000 during 1974–5 , after years of virtually continuous decline . |
| 23 | An intense rivalry was to be renewed between Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson in the short sprint . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Instead , a ‘ position de barrage ’ a well-organised defensive wall was to be erected along the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had traced out the night he took over command . |
| 26 | He further stipulated that the building was to be erected within seven years of his death , otherwise the trustees were authorised to apply the money to any other charitable purpose . |
| 27 | The Government 's motion on its press and public relations was to be moved by a District Councillor from Saffron Walden . |
| 28 | They are reported to have requested ( 1 ) that the confirmation of Christian bishops of Jerusalem , Antioch , Ephesus and Alexandria be revoked ; ( 2 ) that these bishoprics be conferred instead on members of the Desposyni ; and ( 3 ) that Christian churches ‘ resume ’ sending money to the Desposyni Church in Jerusalem , which was to be regarded as the definitive Mother Church . |
| 29 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 30 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |