Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 2 | Despite this it was to be less than two years before the Party adopted the idea of the " People 's Front " in its entirety , including the help of Liberals and even of Conservatives who were opposed to the National Government . |
| 3 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 4 | In this he was to be disappointed . |
| 5 | Apart from the appointment of Edward Kirk to the post of Principal at Leeds in 1881 it was to be almost 100 years before deaf people once again became acceptable as teachers of deaf children . |
| 6 | While she worked she told Sara how fortunate she was to be going to Portugal and to have been found a husband and how , when she was married , it would be her duty to obey him and remain utterly faithful to him , taking the Blessed Virgin Mary as her model and guide in all things . |
| 7 | I was wondering what kind of problems I 'd come up against , having heard how impossible he was to be directed . |
| 8 | She was surprised to find how easy it was to be passive . |
| 9 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 10 | How glad I was to be homeless . |
| 11 | He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station . |
| 12 | My Lord erm there are er in my submission er a likely there were to be five key issues for determination in a court of this trial . |
| 13 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 14 | She was glad it was to be a businesslike parting . |
| 15 | He began by saying how glad he was to be in Europe again , which gave him an opportunity to outline some of the developments taking place in other regions of the world , and to describe the next phase in the development of the world car . |
| 16 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | How gorgeous it was to be alive ! |
| 18 | Now , as he grew older and more mature , especially after his hectic and sometimes horrifying war experiences , he realised how lucky he was to be born and live in such a place . |
| 19 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 20 | Of particular importance here was the formation of the Britons Society in 1918 which was to be the immediate precursor of British racial fascism . |
| 21 | During the 1970s there was to be a flood of legislation designed to limit the freedom of the president in these policy areas . |
| 22 | This time the ‘ Oh ’ seemed all there was to be said . |
| 23 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 24 | It was easy to move among this great , churning concourse , and hear all there was to be heard , and no great trick , for an intelligent man , to winnow the less likely rumours out of the crop , and be left with the grain . |
| 25 | Santerre seemed cheerful enough , shuffling his feet , warming his hands , and loudly declaring how good it was to be back in his own home and with his own people . |
| 26 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 27 | I told him how happy I was to be back in his country . |
| 28 | From Norse mythology , Odin 's twelve female Valkyries would choose those who were to be slain . |
| 29 | Furthermore , if some Branches struck and called on others to back them , that support could be ensured by picketing the workplaces of those who were to be persuaded : Scargill was strong in his insistence that miners do not cross picket lines formed by other miners , but he was eventually defeated by both the unwillingness of an increasingly large body of miners ( especially those working in Nottinghamshire , see below ) to disregard this advice in the absence of a national ballot on strike action , and the government 's preparedness to counter the pickets by mass policing and other tactics which limited the freedom of movement of perceived would-be pickets ( Fine and Millar , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Before the Russian campaign , an event no one could reasonably foresee , those who were to be afrancesados held it ‘ morally impossible ’ that the French would be defeated . |