Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
| 2 | Only a lonely rajah or two was to be seen now , solitary figures surrounded by servants , watching through elaborate brass telescopes acquired at one or other of the European stores in Calcutta . |
| 3 | Manuscripts of more than 300 are to be found in the Gurney archive at the Gloucester city public library . |
| 4 | Route 4 — West Croydon — Penge was to be abandoned and competing bus services 12 and 75 were to be strengthened . |
| 5 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 6 | Of the remaining seats , 152 would be elected on a proportional basis from county and metropolitan lists , and 58 were to be indirectly elected from national " compensation " lists nominated by the parties . |
| 7 | Stages I and II were to be directed to the improvement of tribunals by the strengthening of their personnel , and in particular by appointing lawyer chairmen , with a senior chairman appointed for each region . |
| 8 | Promises were given at Sunningdale in 1973 that articles 2 and 3 were to be withdrawn and were repeated before Hillsborough in 1985 . |
| 9 | The memorandum at the front of the Bill refers to ministerial orders in England and Wales , but schedule 4 shows that the whole of the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912 are to be repealed ; so Scotland will find itself in an invidious position . |
| 10 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 11 | OURSTORY present material from a new book on lesbian and gay Brighton lives in the 50 's and 60 's to be published by QueenSpark Books . |
| 12 | The word ‘ changing ’ in the title refers mainly to the electrification of some of these lines , and Vic 's talk was largely a record of these lines as they were , with Deltics , Class 31's , 37 's and 47 's and Sprinters of Class 150 and even 156 , interspersed with slides of the overhead wire installation , and the Class 317 's and 321 's to be seen now . |