Example sentences of "[adv] was to be " in BNC.
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1 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
2 | To think so was to be conned by the art dealers . |
3 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
4 | The firm and repeated instruction of the strike organisers was that passive resistance alone was to be used . |
5 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
6 | Of course she recognized the author to whom I referred as Ivy Compton-Burnett , who was not then ( 1948 ) so extensively known as she soon was to be . |
7 | Content as she generally was to be alone , this place had a distinctly solitary feel to it , and she 'd be more secure in Kelly 's extrovert company . |
8 | A pay bed was , of course , a bed which could be purchased within an NHS hospital and normally was to be found in the so-called private wards of these hospitals . |
9 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
10 | After much soul searching , he decided that the only way he was going to come off was to be totally separated from the drug scene . |
11 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
12 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |
13 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
14 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
15 | His idea of a day out was to be driven to Heathrow , to watch the aircraft landing and taking off . |
16 | Far worse than this was a decree issued by the British Treasury to the effect that all money paid out was to be at the old pre-invasion rate of 72 lire to the pound ; the rate in 1945 was actually 1760 lire to the pound . |
17 | The last thing she needed right now was to be alone with her thoughts . |
18 | All he wanted , all he hoped for now was to be left alone to come to terms with his plight . |
19 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |
20 | At one time , apparently , the area all around was to be built up with good-class bungalows , et cetera . |
21 | Well was to be Chairman , was to be Vice Chair now under these this new . |
22 | At the new master 's decree , today was to be a day of merrymaking : workers from his nearby shoe factory had been specially brought in by charabanc , and a syndicate of local industrialists had also gathered for the festivities . |
23 | Today was to be his last serious gallop before Tokyo . |
24 | Here was to be no outside elements , no objects or empirical fact or emotion ; it was a world of the mind , stark , pure , austere and coldly beautiful . |
25 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
26 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
27 | Opposition to the regulation considered here was to be expected from property owners … since it intruded on their interests not only directly , but also indirectly through the additional taxation necessary to finance its implementation . |
28 | In separate developments it was confirmed at a UK House of Commons defence committee on Nov. 8 , that low-level flying in the UK after 11 pm was to be increased during 1990 . |
29 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |
30 | What was decided there was to be binding on all . |