Example sentences of "[be] to be one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already one of the four leading underwriters in 1744 , they were to be one of the two houses that arranged the ‘ closed subscription ’ loans to the government in the difficult winters of 1745–6 and 1757 — loans subsequently attacked by Sir John Barnard [ q.v. ] as too favourable to the promoters . |
| 2 | In February , by contrast , she is to be one of Mr Wroe 's Virgins in BBC2 's serialisation of the Jane Rogers novel about a 19th-century religious sect . |
| 3 | To be considered subversive in Colombia is to be one step away from the grave . |
| 4 | It is we , the spectators , who are expected to again experience what it is to be one nation , all pulling together . |
| 5 | Our approach is to be one of evolution rather than revolution . |
| 6 | The UK 's largest spider , the fen raft , is to be one of the first subjects of a species reintroduction programme by English Nature , the English successor body of the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) . |
| 7 | This is to be one bit of TV where the only censor is to be the channel selector . |
| 8 | The Rev Stephen Pedley , who is currently rector of Whickham , is to be one of the five canons resident at Durham Cathedral . |
| 9 | Next year 's output is to be one point five times this year 's . |
| 10 | Aitken began mapping out the song that was to be one of the biggest hits of the 1980s . |
| 11 | His increasingly independent protégée locked herself away in a London dance studio for three weeks perfecting what was to be one of the most talked about dance routines of the pop year . |
| 12 | It was to be one of the actor 's greatest roles . |
| 13 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 14 | When asking for his correspondence with the Treasury to be published , Hall could hardly have suspected that this was to be one of his last official acts . |
| 15 | Given this overall approach it was clear that the question of the so-called worker-peasant alliance was to be one of the main economic , social and political problems in the period that lay ahead . |
| 16 | This theory was to be one of the central beliefs of Stukeley 's historical and religious philosophy . |
| 17 | There he met and came under the influence of one of the instructors , Professor Virgil Magureanu , who was to be one of the judges at the trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , thirteen years later . |
| 18 | ‘ Our pilot W/C Hay , being the Squadron Leader , was to be one of the leading aircraft . |
| 19 | There was to be one last visit from Father O' Neill . |
| 20 | Some of the lesser priced Modernist works were of greater interest , Edward Hopper 's 1926–28 watercolour , ‘ Gloucester houses ’ ( lot 143 est. $300–400,000 ) , bought cheaply by the Jordan-Volpe Gallery , for $300,000 ( £187,500 ) was a brilliant example of what was to be one of his most popular subjects . |
| 21 | This is not to say that it would not encourage efforts at more intense integration : indeed , this was to be one of the major concerns of the Assembly . |
| 22 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |
| 23 | He had an active part to play , too , behind the scenes and , particularly in France , he was to be one of the main targets of the enemy 's attacks . |
| 24 | It may also have brought some families into his service for the first time , among them the Pulleys ( or Pullowes ) of Helmsley , whose head , Henry , was to be one of Richard 's yeomen after his accession . |
| 25 | It was to be one of the worst times in the whole five years . |
| 26 | But erm sewage was to be one of the things I shall never forget , later on . |
| 27 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 28 | He brought the doctor back to earth in Doctor Dolittle 's Return ( 1933 ) , and there was to be one last book , Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake , built round the story of the Flood with Dr Dolittle as a latter-day Noah . |
| 29 | This was to be one of the many houses used by the Bishops of Rochester and a favourite residence of some during the next three centuries . |
| 30 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |