Example sentences of "he was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Born in York on 16th October , 1918 , he was baptised in St George 's Church where he was to be ordained a priest on 8th April , 1945 . |
| 32 | Mario , however , had a contract with Chapman and that contract had stipulated , as at Mario 's insistence it always did , that he was to be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 33 | I was wondering what kind of problems I 'd come up against , having heard how impossible he was to be directed . |
| 34 | He was to be the authority , as head of the Church . |
| 35 | Dying in such a cause , he was to be numbered amongst Christ 's martyrs , much more worthy of the name of Saint Thomas of Canterbury than he whom the Pope falsely before did canonize . |
| 36 | He was also a very reluctant martyr : only when the learnt that he was to be burned in spite of his abject recantations did he withdraw them . |
| 37 | This funny fat fool , this symbol of old-style decency was drowned at sea the other day just after declaring how happy he was to be alive . |
| 38 | And when Sean Connery discovered he was to be filmed with 8ft sharks for Thunderball his reaction was : ‘ You must be joking — not bloody likely . ’ |
| 39 | He was to be classified as a Soviet citizen , he was being sent to the Correctional Labour Colonies … |
| 40 | He was to be found that afternoon , as he was most afternoons , seated in a deckchair aft and immersed in his favourite form of relaxation , the reading of detective novels heavily laced with romance of the more dubious kind . |
| 41 | He was to be hugely admired on the classical stage by Sir Laurence Olivier , John Neville , Sir John Gielgud and Sir Peter Hall , loved on film by Humphrey Bogart , Clint Eastwood , John Huston , Mike Nichols . |
| 42 | He was barely eighteen , he was to go on a tour of the fabled cities of England ; he was to be thrown in with chorus girls , drink with vagabonds of the stage , have the money for floozies and low bars , time to read and time to talk and be praised for doing this stage work which was not work at all . |
| 43 | He was to be at the mercy of both and early on he knew it . |
| 44 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 45 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 46 | His later role as a kind of travelling salesman of international anti-semitism is only tangentially related to the scope of this study , although he was to be of considerable significance in his role as vice-president of the IFL and the legacy he bequeathed to Arnold Leese was to help him revive racial nationalism after the Second World War . |
| 47 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 48 | By conceding a large part of Reagan 's requests in both budget cuts and tax reductions , Jones hoped that compromise with the White House would be possible , but he was to be bitterly disappointed . |
| 49 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 50 | In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army … |
| 51 | He had an active part to play , too , behind the scenes and , particularly in France , he was to be one of the main targets of the enemy 's attacks . |
| 52 | If Henry had hoped for peace , he was to be sadly disillusioned . |
| 53 | General Hodge thus had the first of the many tempestuous scenes in which he was to be involved with Rhee over the next two years . |
| 54 | But the danger of a centre party came not from McKenna but from the Unionist ex-Coalitionists , led by Austen Chamberlain , who had twice previously been Chancellor , and who , if he was to be brought back into the fold , would clearly require some substantial offer . |
| 55 | Although there is some doubt as to whether or not he appreciated this , he could not commit himself without in practice committing his party — unless he was to be replaced . |
| 56 | He was to be a great king , for thirty-five years the master-politician of Western Christendom , able to overwhelm or out-manoeuvre all his rivals . |
| 57 | By devastating his fields , orchards and vineyards you hoped to force him to listen to a case which he was otherwise disposed to ignore ; by military means he was to be compelled to come to terms . |
| 58 | But as Duke he was to be more than just the Count of Poitou . |
| 59 | The Collector was obliged to lift his heavy frame out of the chair on the verandah and advance to stand by the altar table , for he was to be godfather to the child . |
| 60 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |