Example sentences of "[adj] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 2 | To be too direct was to be unfeminine . |
| 3 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |
| 4 | Right-wing social democrats drew the conclusion that material advances could be won indefinitely and therefore nothing extra was to be gained by open class struggle . |
| 5 | This was a peculiar thing to do , because in 1963 in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor had ruled that a free pardon wiped out a conviction and all its consequences , and the accused was to be regarded as having been acquitted . |
| 6 | Nothing human was to be seen there — no man to whom I might call . |
| 7 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 8 | She wanted to be safe , and the only way she knew how to be safe was to be rich . ’ |
| 9 | The R.S.F. was equally adamant and for a while , the management held out the driver was responsible was to be reprimanded . |
| 10 | If the help available was to be a free good then , in the USA , there would be a considerable amount of stigma attached to recipients of it . |
| 11 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 12 | He was found seated staring at the wall , as if something unmentionable was to be found there that they could not see . |
| 13 | The road across Mitcham Common was to be widened on the north side only . |
| 14 | Of his collaborative works with Herbert , Marble Hill and the White Lodge are classic examples of the first-generation Anglo-Palladian villa , of which the former in particular was to be a highly influential model amongst later designers ; while the bridge at Wilton is one of the most perfect and most memorably inventive of all Anglo-Palladian images , and was to be faithfully copied on four occasions — at Stowe ( by 1742 ) , Prior Park , Bath ( 1756 ) , Hagley ( by 1764 ) , and Amesbury ( 1777 ) . |
| 15 | To be new was to be critical . |
| 16 | The growth of expectations and the greater willingness of government to intervene in areas previously considered inviolate was to be continued and become more marked in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 18 | At every stage of the arms race the only point in being tall was to be relatively taller than neighbouring trees . |
| 19 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 20 | Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed . |
| 21 | Dada and Aunt Tossie talked to each other with scarcely a pause , showing a concern for Maman 's silence as though to be silent was to be sick . |