Example sentences of "it was to have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to have been another Scarborough , a resort for the wealthy of Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | Although it was to have been built with funds and expertise from the US 's Agency for International Development ( AID ) , it was promoted by the US Embassy in Honduras . |
| 3 | It was to have been the IRA 's biggest gun-running plot ever , but it was foiled because of what was called ‘ Operation Leprechaun ’ , where the CIA , our MI5 and Irish Intelligence took a healthy — or unhealthy , it all depends on your point of view — interest in the activities of Noraid , an Irish-American group that specialized — for all I know it may still be specializing — in buying American arms and shipping them to the IRA in Ireland . |
| 4 | It was to have been a nice little earner . |
| 5 | It was to have been taken outside the ivy clad bay-windows of the Blackwell Grange Moat House . |
| 6 | It was to have been compulsorily purchased to make way for the final stage of the inner ring road until that scheme was dropped . |
| 7 | It was to have been discussed at the next Shanks & McEwan board meeting in early October . |