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 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
| 11 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
| 14 | The last thing she needed right now was to be alone with her thoughts . |
| 15 | All he wanted , all he hoped for now was to be left alone to come to terms with his plight . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well was to be Chairman , was to be Vice Chair now under these this new . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Today was to be his last serious gallop before Tokyo . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
| 22 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What was decided there was to be binding on all . |
| 27 | His reward then was to be summarily dropped from the side , missing the 1989 tour of England : it is doubtful whether the sometime mountaineer will received such shabby treatment this time . |
| 28 | Their bark , if bark it was , possessed a highly reflective surface , so that to move forward was to be accompanied by a multitudinous army of distortions of oneself . |
| 29 | She was shocked and upset and what she needed most was to be allowed to rest , alone . |
| 30 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |