Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 2 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 3 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
| 4 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 5 | How glad I was to be homeless . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's been one thing understood between us for years and that was that you were to be discreet . |
| 7 | She was to be wrong-footed , she saw : made to feel ponderous , portentous . |
| 8 | For a while , she was to be disappointed . |
| 9 | She was to be sure to concentrate first on the relaxation part of the exercise , and was to stop immediately if she felt herself becoming at all upset . |
| 10 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 11 | She was to be fisted . |
| 12 | When I told him that if we were to be married I would n't ask my father for a penny he … well , he threw me out . ’ |
| 13 | He also warned us that , once we were back in London , we were to be careful where we went , to whom we talked and what we ate and drank . |
| 14 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 15 | They were to be wandering years , but they were to end in triumph . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a student at the university : they were to be married until she decided a career on the stage suited her better than becoming the wife of a Hapsburg cavalry officer . |
| 17 | Again they were to be disappointed . |
| 18 | However , if Athletico had hopes of a brief stay away from the Premier they were to be disappointed . |
| 19 | But they were to be disappointed . |
| 20 | Wardle , Appleyard , Close , Lowson , Trueman and Illingworth entered cricket in Yardley 's reign and all had great respect for his tactical ingenuity and his benevolent , Gower-style leadership although they were to be critical later . |
| 21 | He had warned many Champenois that they were to be ready to follow when so commanded and , he wrote , ‘ they willingly agreed ’ . |
| 22 | If the king-duke did not order a specific meal , they were to be ready with pork , beef , cabbages ( caulibus ) , mustard , and hens ; and if one of the co-seigneurs was knighted , he was to wait upon the king-duke wearing ‘ red hose of scarlet and gilded spurs or shoes ’ while he ate . |
| 23 | They were to be punishable under the Forest laws , however , if their dogs coursed in the royal forest . |
| 24 | They were to be worthy members of the Arsenal family off the field as well as on . |
| 25 | There was no consensus amongst the Serbs as to the form of government they wanted if they were to be able to force recognition of Serbian autonomy from the sultan . |
| 26 | ‘ We would have more respect , certainly for the politicians , if they were to be positive , imaginative and constructive instead of carping and negative in their approach . ’ |
| 27 | As originally conceived in the White Paper , the main characteristics of the polytechnics were that they were to be large , comprehensive , have an applied philosophy , be primarily teaching institutions with a brief to develop courses in new areas , and their courses were to be validated by the CNAA . |
| 28 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 29 | The worst thing for her was to be alone . |
| 30 | The GREY program has automatic intensity adjustment and if it were to be useful would need to be modified to provide a user override , at least during development of the measuring technique . |