Example sentences of "[noun] but [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
| 2 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 3 | This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning . |
| 4 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 5 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |