Example sentences of "of this [noun] [was/were] to be " in BNC.

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1 The basis of this liability was to be found in an implied term in the lorry driver 's employment contract to indemnify Romford for loss caused by his — the employee 's — negligence .
2 But the life of this station was to be short .
3 All this turned out to have long-term significance for Charles the Bald , for much of this region was to be the central zone of his future kingdom .
4 Two-thirds of this gap was to be refunded to the UK .
5 Undoubtedly some of this information was to be incorporated in his own Dictionary .
6 The most bizarre manifestation of this disregard was to be the purges that swept across Soviet society in the middle 1930s .
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