Example sentences of "[adj] [ex0] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | During the 1970s there was to be a flood of legislation designed to limit the freedom of the president in these policy areas . |
| 3 | This time the ‘ Oh ’ seemed all there was to be said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As far as Adolf Hitler was concerned there was to be no possibility of an honourable death for a traitor . |
| 7 | By 1970 there were to be education departments in seven polytechnics in England and one in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | Throughout the 1870s inspectors advised Guardians on means of cutting expenditure : in particular there was to be more stringent investigation of applicants for and recipients of out-door relief . |