Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] 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 | Those lacking this knowledge tended not to succeed in the first graduation step and usually were to be seen a year or so later in either group D or E. |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 14 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
| 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 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 21 | Here were to be found the flying schools , the workshops and the hangars of Bristol , Deperdussin , A V Roe , Sopwith , Martinsyde and Vickers . |
| 22 | Well was to be Chairman , was to be Vice Chair now under these this new . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Today was to be his last serious gallop before Tokyo . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
| 27 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had five managers in mind , who mostly were to be found in the same quarter of London . |
| 30 | They also protested that under the law half of any funds received from abroad were to be placed in a special " fund for democracy " . |