Example sentences of "[adv] it was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The completed upholstery was finished at the point where it was to be fixed in the coach . |
| 32 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 33 | A decision to pipe crude oil from the B.P. Forties Field in the North Sea to a new terminal at Hound Point from where it was to be shipped outwards , raised doubts about safety of navigation in the River Forth . |
| 34 | It was therefore at Florence that agreement between Greeks and Latins was reached — though again it was to be of short duration . |
| 35 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |