Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 2 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 3 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 5 | The book trade — where they were to be found in large numbers — differed from the other kinds of printing in several ways . |
| 6 | They had been trained in their own callings — pilots , navigators , gunners and wireless operator 's — and came together at No 19 OTU Kinloss where they were to be trained on Whitleys . |
| 7 | In the same year , Dustin was in London again as one of the guests at the Royal Command Performance of Love Story , where he was to be presented to the Queen Mother . |
| 8 | Born in York on 16th October , 1918 , he was baptised in St George 's Church where he was to be ordained a priest on 8th April , 1945 . |
| 9 | Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward . |
| 10 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |
| 11 | The contents of the Church of Scotland ceremony and where it is to be held is entirely at the discretion of the minister . |
| 12 | And , of course , who it is for and where it is to be sent back to — facts which often seem to be forgotten . |
| 13 | It must be stated clearly for whom the grammar is written , and where it is to be used . |
| 14 | For example , she considered Yardley 's Foundation Cream highly desirable , and would purchase it at every shop where it was to be found , with the consequence that she must have had dozens of pots stored , all drying up , in the limited accommodation provided in her billet . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : [ furious ] And is it thus in my fond conceding moments that I am to be answered and despised ? |
| 16 | Do I take it that I 'm to be redeemed from that particular fate ? |
| 17 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 18 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 19 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 20 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |
| 21 | It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately . |
| 22 | Did you truly believe , it seemed to say , that I was to be so easily pinned down ? |
| 23 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 24 | ‘ So I am to be punished , after all ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So I was to be delivered back to that fool , was I ? |
| 26 | He had concluded that there was no likelihood of a breach of the peace , largely , it would seem , because the protesters had emphasised that theirs was to be a peaceful event . |
| 27 | However , he learns to his anger and dismay that she is to be married . |
| 28 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 29 | This crowded historical panorama of war and the power of beauty describes the birth of Ayesha as the mortal daughter of noble Arabian parents but suggests in recounting her long training in mysticism under an Egyptian priest and her guardianship of the Fire of Immortality in the shrine at Kôr that she is to be regarded in part as a spiritual being . |
| 30 | One of these documents had informed her that she was to be attached to a Mr Victor Wilcox , Managing Director of J. Pringle & Sons , for one day a week during the remainder of the winter term , and she had chosen Wednesdays for this undertaking since it was the day she normally kept free from teaching . |