Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 2 | Every spring she was to be found visiting Fife . |
| 3 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
| 4 | For the underground it was to be almost unknown . |
| 5 | For Locke , then , personal identity consists in an identity of consciousness , and not in the identity of some substance whose essence it is to be conscious . |
| 6 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 7 | Some respondents to FRED 1 were concerned about exceptional items and the prominence they were to be given . |
| 8 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 9 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 10 | In spite of its obvious imitation of continental movements it was to be a profoundly British variant , with social and political roots in domestic problems . |
| 11 | ‘ Then what an unfeeling little brute you are to be sure . |
| 12 | In this society it follows that real talent goes unrewarded and unflinching purity of soul is automatically derided — on both these counts I am to be numbered among the punished , especially in regard to material goods and services , financial security , the trust and love of friendship , and the divinely counselled companionship of wife and family . |
| 13 | For the following two weeks she was to be part of an ENSA company touring remote army camps in Wales . |
| 14 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 15 | On this evening we are to be entertained by a speaker who has investigated the life and time of William Shakespeare . |
| 16 | These asked for an end to the current system of zero-rating goods bound for export to other EC states in favour of levying VAT on all taxable goods sold , regardless of where in the Community they are to be sold . |
| 17 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 18 | They also pointed out that in a competitive market for a homogeneous product it was to be expected that prices would be identical and follow each other closely . |
| 19 | Although the stanchions are in place it was to be a further 3 years before electrification was completed . |
| 20 | Then there were officers with particular functions , one whose job it was to be at the scene of the crime before the body was touched or moved . |
| 21 | Kenneth says what a joy it is to be back on one of the Great Western ’ Castles ’ . |
| 22 | It is hard to convey to those who do not remember the abysmal depths of post-war British catering what a heady sensation it was to be invited to strike a blow for improvement — or to strike a restaurant off for bad cooking , uncleanliness or lack of attention . |
| 23 | When he arrived at the meeting it was to be told that he was suspended and barred from his office . |
| 24 | For Lucy Jackson it was to be a summer task — How to present the Medau Method to the notoriously critical 18–25 age group in a trendy setting . |
| 25 | It tells a dark and passionate story of love and hatred , as a young bride elopes with her lover on the morning of the day she was to be married to her childhood sweetheart . |
| 26 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 27 | The recreational vehicles — Vauxhall is sensitive about calling them off-roaders — are familiar ; in Japan and in the US they 're the short-wheelbase Isuzu Amigo and the long-wheelbase five-door Rodeo , but in the UK they 're to be the Vauxhall Frontera Sport and Frontera respectively . |
| 28 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 29 | I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 30 | All red wine and vintage port would have been decanted ; port as early as possible on the day it was to be drunk ; claret two or three hours before drinking and kept at room temperature without a stopper in order to let it ‘ breathe ’ . |