Example sentences of "[noun] it [be] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of its obvious imitation of continental movements it was to be a profoundly British variant , with social and political roots in domestic problems . |
| 2 | Although the stanchions are in place it was to be a further 3 years before electrification was completed . |
| 3 | For Lucy Jackson it was to be a summer task — How to present the Medau Method to the notoriously critical 18–25 age group in a trendy setting . |
| 4 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 5 | When the OED was planned in the mid-nineteenth century it was to be a new approach to lexicography . |
| 6 | In design it was to be a narrow flight of steps descending a steep slope , partly below ground , that ended abruptly above the sea at a vertical plate-glass wall . |