Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking that this was to be alive . |
| 2 | It was to start on the night of 17 November , and L Detachment 's role in this was to be small but potentially crucial . |
| 3 | And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny . |
| 4 | This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War . |
| 5 | This was to be Active Training . |
| 6 | To be too direct was to be unfeminine . |
| 7 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
| 8 | In addition , further renewal of MFN status in 1992 was to be dependent on China meeting stringent conditions concerned with ( i ) improving human rights ; ( ii ) ending the export of goods produced in prison labour camps ; and ( iii ) controlling the sale of ballistic missiles to the Middle East . |
| 9 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 10 | She wanted to be safe , and the only way she knew how to be safe was to be rich . ’ |
| 11 | To be new was to be critical . |
| 12 | In the event , neither was to be forthcoming . |
| 13 | Dada and Aunt Tossie talked to each other with scarcely a pause , showing a concern for Maman 's silence as though to be silent was to be sick . |