Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 4 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 5 | How glad I was to be homeless . |
| 6 | Someone had gone to Germany , someone had returned from London , someone was in hospital , someone was to be married . |
| 7 | The treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji was drawn up in 1774 in both Russian and Turkish versions but with a master copy , which was to be authoritative in case of dispute , in Italian . |
| 8 | The date of the change was 1494 , the year of Charles VIII 's Italian campaign , beginning the destructive French , and therefore Spanish , involvement in Italy which was to be such a dominant theme in European politics and war in the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career . |
| 10 | Foundations were laid for a rivalry between the two countries which was to be one of the principal causes of the First World War . |
| 11 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 12 | [ Article 22 concerned ratification of the treaty which was to be valid for 20 years . |
| 13 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 14 | He was to visit units of all the three divisions in the Corps area , each of which was to be concerned with the repatriations . |
| 15 | Thus the hobelar , a form of light horseman , came to provide the mobile and versatile force which was to be characteristic of so much war on the Anglo-Scottish border in the early fourteenth century . |
| 16 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |
| 17 | These were the golden years of the secondary modern school — a school which was to be free , so it was thought , from the cramping effects of competitive examination . |
| 18 | She was to be wrong-footed , she saw : made to feel ponderous , portentous . |
| 19 | For a while , she was to be disappointed . |
| 20 | She was to be sure to concentrate first on the relaxation part of the exercise , and was to stop immediately if she felt herself becoming at all upset . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was to be fisted . |
| 23 | But who was to be general in his place ? ’ |
| 24 | There he met and came under the influence of one of the instructors , Professor Virgil Magureanu , who was to be one of the judges at the trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , thirteen years later . |
| 25 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 26 | The second unexpected area of conflict came over the question of who was to be entitled to final cut on the film . |
| 27 | March 1989 saw the formal appointment of a coordinator for home-school liaison officers and bilingual support assistants , who was to be responsible to ‘ the appropriate adviser in the Primary Division ’ and whose job description listed eight major duties including close liaison with the schools involved in the two projects , cooperation with heads to provide a positive and coherent service , and attendance at appropriate working parties and committees ‘ as agreed with the Primary Adviser ’ . |
| 28 | As for Odovacer , he has sometimes been identified with the warleader who was to be responsible for the deposition of the last emperor , Romulus Augustulus , in 476 . |
| 29 | Present at this meeting was James Burton , the Scottish developer , who was to be concerned with erecting the early College buildings . |
| 30 | Among the cast of Pastoral was Pamela Chrimes , who was to be important in John 's early career . |