Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it looked as though you 'd bought something rather than been to the pawnshop . |
| 2 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 3 | THE last in this season 's Young Musicians ' lunchtime recitals at Farnham Maltings is on Friday , April 3rd at 1 p.m. and is to be given by winners of the recital classes from this year 's Maltings Music Festival . |
| 4 | Seb had stopped taking Gloria out and was to be seen every night with the rest of his team running in shorts and a singlet round the Greycoats ' playing field , being timed by old Plumpton . |
| 5 | The veil , the train , the imitation orange blossom are all there and are to me wholly incongruous . |
| 6 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |