Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |
| 2 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 3 | Wendy and I were pleased to find that we were to be billeted in the same small town of Wolverton — pleased , that is , until we saw it ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He did not know whether it was to be part of this year 's pay round , but it was in itself a ‘ cost-neutral ’ proposal . |
| 6 | Blake realized that they were to be part of some evil black magic ceremony . |
| 7 | Was there any feeling when these letters were received that they were to be taken seriously or they were in fact a bluff ? |
| 8 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 9 | On Sept. 4 the communists in the Supreme Soviet , who before the coup had numbered 324 out of the 450 deputies , mustered only 50 votes in favour of lifting the ban , and the leader of the CP bloc , Oleksandr Moroz , announced that it was to be dissolved . |
| 10 | The Jet Provost T.5 in question had just heard that it was to be shortly replaced by the Shorts Tucano and immediately took out its angst on a passing erk . |
| 11 | But the brief also instructed that it was to be ‘ a lively , humorous paper that covered all aspects of life and not just current affairs . |
| 12 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 13 | What would she do if she were to be discovered ? |
| 14 | But this would be weakened if we were to be deflected from our existing targets . |
| 15 | For the first time she began to wonder if she was to be given leadership beyond the context of Africa . |
| 16 | Lord Meston submits that the relevant facts of that case are remarkably comparable to the facts of this case , for the mother 's assertion that there would be a grave risk of an intolerable situation for the child largely depends upon the financial circumstances in which she and the child would be placed if they were to be returned to Canada . |
| 17 | It was an insignificant moment , no one there would have thought that it was to be the first movement in such a great drama , not only for them but also for those watching . |
| 18 | The ‘ Articles concerning the Charters ’ ordained that they were to be observed in full , including those regarding disafforestment , and read out in every county court four times a year . |
| 19 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |
| 20 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 21 | When asked for the authority upon which the second of these propositions was based , he replied that it was to be found in section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , and in the principles stated by the majority of the House of Lords in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 . |
| 22 | Any Windows-based package can image its PostScript screen fonts onto a matrix printer and so produce a realistic ‘ proof ’ of what the document would look like it were to be output through a page printer or typesetter . |
| 23 | Affirmative evidence rebutting that implication would , I think , be needed if it were to be contended that paragraph ( b ) had not been satisfied . |
| 24 | With a name like that it was to be expected . |
| 25 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 26 | If no date is specified the court would probably conclude that it was to be exercised within a reasonable period ending on the last day for exercise ( Multon v Cordell [ 1986 ] 1 EGLR 44 ) . |
| 27 | Should the project go ahead , spent fuel would be stored in a series of air-cooled concrete vaults and kept there for fifty years , after which the company would decide whether it was to be reprocessed or buried . |
| 28 | Such , therefore , should be the character in the followers of Jesus , called as they were to be ‘ holy ’ or ‘ separated to God ’ as his special possession ( I Pet . |
| 29 | The next day all this was swept from their minds when a letter arrived from Eileen , saying that she was to be married by special licence . |
| 30 | When it became known that they were to be repatriated , fighting broke out , the gates were forced , and Italian police opened fire after being attacked with stones and planks . |