Example sentences of "[adv] he [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 2 | Where now he was to be incarcerated as a hostage , a prisoner , an enemy . |
| 3 | Now he was to be particularly zealous in the interests of the king . |
| 4 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 5 | Precisely how he was to be enticed aboard a suitable vessel remained in doubt , particularly as the DEA neither owned nor controlled a suitable vessel . |
| 6 | Francis Yuen , the controversial head of the Hong Kong stock exchange , announced his resignation on Sept. 6 with effect from Oct. 26 , when he was to be succeeded by Paul Chow . |
| 7 | Duhalde had tendered his resignation with effect from Dec. 11 , when he was to be sworn in as Governor of the province of Buenos Aires , a post which he had won in the Sept. 8 elections [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 8 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |