Example sentences of "[be] to have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 2 | The expression of output in the form of performance indicators ( see chapter 10 ) , which were to have been quantitative wherever possible , has caused considerable problems . |
| 3 | LAST YEAR the Conservatives were telling us how clever they were to have been able to cut taxation and to increase public spending at one and the same time . |
| 4 | It had hoped that under 100 of its 360 staff would lose their jobs , hoped that many would stay in work as employees of Kontrax 's 15 dealers , which were wholly-owned but were to have been sold off as franchises under the scheme . |
| 5 | He had been badly damaged when the Zionists had sent their commando squad with explosives to La Seine-sur-Mer , close to the French port of Toulon , to destroy the two reactors that were to have been shipped to Tuwaithah 48 hours later . |
| 6 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 7 | Gold , platinum and palladium were to have been mined at the remote site in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory . |
| 8 | ‘ Belonging ’ to these communities is to have been born in them ; and/or to have close kin in the area ; and/or to have a reputation in them ( i.e. to be known as having a certain character , certain skills and certain beliefs ) . |
| 9 | Mr Clinton 's only crime so far is to have been accused by an ageing cabaret artiste of infidelity . |
| 10 | His specific professional concern is to have been with Aspects of Modernism , which is says is a loose name which covers the creative disruption of all certainties about what reading is , what writing is and what words can do . |
| 11 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 12 | Also , Raskolnikov 's narrative was to have been ‘ A Confession ’ — Dostoevsky 's own title — and this would n't work either . |
| 13 | The £750,000 survey — in which 20,000 adults will be asked detailed questions about the frequency and nature of their sexual activities — was to have been funded by the Department of Health , the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 14 | The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes . |
| 15 | There 's the Coventry Blitz , which was to have been the Ramsgate Blitz until problems with planning permission . |
| 16 | The Mirror Group — controlled by Mr Maxwell 's private companies — was to have been floated on the Stock Exchange next year . |
| 17 | When Kylie first got involved in the film , rock megastar David Bowie was to have been the film 's executive producer . |
| 18 | His psyche had chosen to fly during what was to have been a two-week visit at their flat rather than fifteen storeys up in his own dismal , run-down tower block , alone with his nagging wife . |
| 19 | ‘ In the summer of 1939 , just before the outbreak of war , my cousin and I planned , in this very room , what was to have been my first Lieder recital . |
| 20 | It was to have been another Scarborough , a resort for the wealthy of Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | Mr Guerin was to have been sentenced yesterday but this has now been delayed by up to two months . |
| 22 | This year 's final was to have been a duel between the two most successful of all World Cup horses , Milton and Canadian Ian Millar 's Big Ben , who won the final in 1988 and 1989 . |
| 23 | The announcement lifts the threat of a boycott of the event from all of the British entrants , which was to have been considered by the British Wheelchair Racing Association today . |
| 24 | Mr de Klerk had to call off the rally and a lunch at which he was to have been honoured , and was whisked away in an official car to nearby Cape Town . |
| 25 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 26 | This was to have been sold and shipped to America but fierce opposition kept the chapel in it place |
| 27 | Among the rejected choices was Sibelius 's Tapiola , and , at that stage in planning , the story was to have been of |
| 28 | Spanish was to have been my next language : my winter 's task . |
| 29 | The subject grew from an idea for a ‘ little tale ’ about a child , which was to have been told by Master Humphrey . |
| 30 | She had fond memories of walking hand-in-hand with her uncle , a famous preacher , who was to have been her guardian had all her family died prematurely . |