Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
| 2 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 3 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 4 | The Saturday Review in its now usual vein commented that although they were ‘ all men of various claims to distinction ’ , they hardly appeared competent to examine and assess the baffling array of entries with which they were to be confronted . |
| 5 | Winchester city councillor Major Dougie Covill requested that more pressure be put upon the county council to improve the footpaths and pavements which are in a very dangerous condition , and a Broad Street businessman wondered if residents were really aware of the changes going on in Broad Street , and the manner in which they were to be undertaken . |
| 6 | Testimony and documentary evidence would , they envisaged , be presented either to the forum court or obtained by Letter of Request in the foreign country in which they were to be found . |
| 7 | The surplus of 38 had to be considered because it was greater than the difference , 6 , between Trimble 525 , and Robinson , 519 , and might conceivably have affected the order in which they were to be eliminated . |
| 8 | The legislation was flawed not by the requirement of sanctions , claimed Bush , but by the rigid manner in which they were to be imposed , which would " harm US economic interests and provoke friendly countries who are essential to our efforts to resist Iraqi aggression " . |
| 9 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 10 | Summoning troops from the reserve would be easier if the formations in which they were to be deployed existed already . |
| 11 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 12 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 13 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 14 | Just before this , however , he won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford , with which he was to be associated until his death . |
| 15 | General Hodge thus had the first of the many tempestuous scenes in which he was to be involved with Rhee over the next two years . |
| 16 | In 1888 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and also the Art Workers ' Guild , of which he was to be an enthusiastic and devoted member , and which provided his main circle of friends ; he was elected master of the guild for the year 1903 . |
| 17 | The autocracy undertook to guarantee full civil liberty , to give major legislative powers to the promised Assembly ( the State Duma ) , and to broaden greatly the franchise on which it was to be based . |
| 18 | If economic reform was the ‘ key to all our problems ’ at the outset of Gorbachev 's administration and political reform increasingly the means by which it was to be accomplished , the ultimate objective remained the achievement of a form of socialism which advanced decisively on those that had preceded it . |
| 19 | It was as if only she was not yet to be told which it was to be . |
| 20 | The demand management policies by which it was to be achieved seemed to offer a progressive alternative to socialism by providing the economic background which would allow measures of social betterment to be carried out without socialist control of the economy . |
| 21 | The plaintiffs obtained an injunction to restrain the defendants notwithstanding that the product in question ( a swizzle stick embossed with the name of the ship upon which it was to be used ) was available to anyone who happened to take a cruise on that ship . |
| 22 | In the years after the defeat of 1935 the Party formulated many of the policies on which it was to be returned in 1945 . |
| 23 | It was alleged then that although the names of the judges were not announced until after the designs were submitted , some architects knew who they were to be and had pointed their designs towards them . |
| 24 | Yes I was just trying to think as to who it was to be quite honest . |
| 25 | And it was because you told her I was to be the baby 's legal mother when the adoption went through . ’ |
| 26 | He was even more irritated when Bunny told her she was to be interviewed by a reporter from the Manchester Daily News . |
| 27 | A famous letter written by Fulbert of Chartres to William V of Aquitaine rehearsed the duties of the vassal in terms deliberately chosen to be easily remembered by the warriors to whom it was to be read : |
| 28 | Nobody was quite sure what that really meant but if it were to mean that audiences were now ready for films which dealt sensationally with sex , crime , and shady city affairs then that was what they were to be given . |
| 29 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 30 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |