Example sentences of "[verb] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 2 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 3 | Nothing men had said or written was to be trusted . |
| 4 | A public revenue approach to costing was to be adopted , which meant focusing on the cost of services received , and excluding the cost of housing , personal living expenses and informal care from the main calculations . |
| 5 | Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , had been promised was to be his . |
| 6 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 7 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 8 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |
| 9 | He 'd had his go , if all that was rumoured was to be believed . |
| 10 | The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics . |
| 11 | The last thing she needed was to be up in front of the stewards again . |
| 12 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 13 | The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison . |
| 14 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 15 | The last thing she needed was to be found trespassing in the Baron 's private grounds . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 17 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 18 | The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report , |
| 19 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 20 | None of the schemes Curzon feared was to be accomplished . |
| 21 | The need , he felt was to be realistic ; idealism was all very well , but what is necessary is a practical programme based upon mutual self-interest . |
| 22 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 23 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 24 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 25 | In every way , Henry V acted as if all that he did was to be lasting in its effects . |
| 26 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 27 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 28 | For socialists to champion the aspiration when there was no objective possibility of its being realized was to be both reactionary and utopian . |
| 29 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 30 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |