Example sentences of "[be] to be [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night in October was to be its first successful trial . |
| 2 | Verdun was to be its first big test . |
| 3 | Educated , urban Spaniards demanded institutional and constitutional reforms , some going so far as to favour the monarchy 's replacement by a republic ; in Catalonia and the Basque country , where distinctive languages and cultures existed , rising nationalist movements opposed the regime 's centralizing character ; in Morocco , Spain and her army became embroiled in what was to be her last colonial war ; and two mass forces of the left , socialism and anarchism , emerged to offer organized protest against the injustices of Spanish society . |
| 4 | Among the 800 hardened athletes in St Clements yesterday were four students from Buckingham University … they 've set themselves the goal of running the New York Marathon to raise money for charity … this was to be their first serious test . |
| 5 | This was to be his first independent command , and his status and authority were already , threatened by our presence . |
| 6 | It was to be his last substantial prose work , the final fruit of the project which he had been contemplating since the middle of the Second World War . |
| 7 | Today was to be his last serious gallop before Tokyo . |
| 8 | During the next twenty months Mozart composed a substantial amount of music , including three symphonies and what was to be his last complete mass setting , K.337 ( an incomplete one survives , K.427/417a from 1782 , and the Requiem was unfinished at the time of his death ) . |
| 9 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 10 | This was to be his last public appearance . |