Example sentences of "[be] to [be] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April .
2 That 's when Chelsea are due to announce whether or not Glenn Hoddle really is to be their new manager .
3 It is especially essential that those who are responsible for implementation must have a thoroughgoing commitment to change if research is to be anything other than counterproductive ’ ( Engel 1977:176 ) .
4 As the Second World War entered what was to be its final phase , Franco therefore stepped up his efforts to court Allied favour .
5 The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years .
6 This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her .
7 Eliot had already agreed to share his new home with John Hayward who , having supervised its decoration , joined him a month after Eliot had " settled in " ; for the next eleven years this was to be their mutual address .
8 ‘ I 've never seen one before , ’ she said excitedly , when it was clear that that was to be their only sighting .
9 Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child .
10 The barn was to be their cabinet-making workshop ; their business — making fine furniture to order and restoring early furniture — had outgrown their current quarters .
11 1962 was to be my big year ; Pop had me weight training three times a week , my statistics were now 40-24-36 and I was in the final of the Mecca ‘ Miss England ’ Contest .
12 Then we were introduced to Dr William Howlett Kelleher who was to be our new Superintendent .
13 She was to be his private partner only , kept from public knowledge .
14 In about 1823 he began what was to be his principal life 's work , the translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Persian .
15 The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report ,
16 In 1938 and 1939 he appeared under Sir Thomas Beecham [ q.v. ] at Covent Garden in his three greatest Mozartian roles and in a German-language Bartered Bride ; and after the war he insisted on taking part there with his old colleagues , the visiting Vienna State Opera , as Don Ottavio in a Don Giovanni at Covent Garden which was to be his final stage appearance , in September 1947 .
17 That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests .
18 Morrison had Gooch very similarly at Christchurch , and again this was to be his only success of the innings .
19 Philip Larkin began as a poet in the tradition of W. B. Yeats , and only slowly came to see that Thomas Hardy , not Yeats , was to be his poetic master .
20 He was to be someone acceptable to the Deanses and to Mr Moffat and Mr Johnston and a ‘ business figure of standing ’ had already been approached .
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