Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were taking a trip to Canada and the States and were to be staying with Cassie 's Canadian aunt and uncle . |
| 2 | The commission for a new tomb for the philosopher , to replace the simple stone that marks his grave on the Catalan coast , had been given to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1989 by the Arbeitskreis Selbständiger Kulturinstitut and was to be financed to the tune of DM1 million by the German Foreign Ministry . |
| 3 | General elections were to be held in October and were to be accompanied by a two-part referendum . |
| 4 | He collapsed at the inaugural conference of the Serbian Socialist Party for Kosovo and Metohija , which replaced the Kosovo LC and was to be subordinate to the Serbian Socialist Party formed in July [ see p. 37622 ] . |
| 5 | Chiang visited Seoul and was to be followed by other Kuomintang emissaries until June 1950 . |
| 6 | One , the ‘ local ’ , was a three coach train starting at Machynlleth and was to Barmouth and return . |
| 7 | — As Israel 's freedom has been purchased by the death of the firstborn of Egypt , the nation 's firstborn belong in a special sense to God and are to be " bought back " from him . |
| 8 | In the first district ( A ) all services provided by its own units were deemed to be " core " by the DGM and were to be supplied within the district " come hell or high water " . |
| 9 | In his fury Pascoe might have grabbed the knife — which could have belonged to MacQuillan and been to hand — and plunged it into him . |
| 10 | Also , if you are studying a period in history before the invention of the camera , there are many paintings that depict Edinburgh that are to be found in various galleries in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 12 | The second method was more peculiar to Morgan and was to be the source of many controversies in his time . |
| 13 | Two Germans were arrested in Bangkok in June and were to be extradited to Germany to face charges relating to Sonntag 's murder . |