Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 2 | Knowledge of his locality was to be a great boon in 1749 when , as master of The American ( owned by Christopher Scott , a Hull merchant ) , he was able to recognize the coastline at Nantucket after a severe storm had blown the vessel off course . |
| 3 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 4 | Haig won his point , although the scale of his attacks was to be reduced . |
| 5 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |