Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of expectations and the greater willingness of government to intervene in areas previously considered inviolate was to be continued and become more marked in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Having decided this was to be my subject , I made a still frame on my TV and photographed my television set with a Hasselblad . |
| 3 | Peggy Wood and her team transformed the Davidson Room into an Aladdin 's Cave of Things Past and Present that was to be a magnet and a haven for members of the public . |
| 4 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 5 | Sometimes he wondered how the teachers could go on living , knowing this was to be their life , until the end . |
| 6 | ‘ I understood this was to be a private meeting . ’ |
| 7 | I think this was to be expected . |
| 8 | Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed . |
| 9 | ‘ A bit tired , but the doctor said that was to be expected for a day or two . |
| 10 | The dominant benefit is the means-tested income support replacing supplementary benefit ( formerly national assistance ) in April 1988 , whereas under the Beveridge Plan this was to be a minor benefit providing a safety net for those not otherwise covered . |