Example sentences of "[adj] man [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the pictured men was to be brought to trial accused of murdering Julie . |
| 2 | Very few wholly unqualified men were to be found at the summit of the administration . |
| 3 | The guilty man was to be drawn on an ox hide to the gallows , where he was hanged . |
| 4 | If the votes of working men were to be obtained , the parties had to offer them something . |
| 5 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |