Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hearing the two women for a while , Mayor John Church summoned the Looe town constable , at which each woman presumed the other was to be suitably punished for her infamy . |
| 2 | The arch of her eyebrows declared the pretence was to be total . |
| 3 | Whereas writers and even journalists aim to construct individual works , works that stand on their own , the only novelty allowed the scientist is to be first . |
| 4 | In return £2 million of its capital and a proportionate part of the interest which the government paid the company was to be cancelled . |
| 5 | When you proposed it , I understood the article was to be a celebration of ten years ’ good work . |