Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 2 | Of course she recognized the author to whom I referred as Ivy Compton-Burnett , who was not then ( 1948 ) so extensively known as she soon was to be . |
| 3 | Content as she generally was to be alone , this place had a distinctly solitary feel to it , and she 'd be more secure in Kelly 's extrovert company . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 5 | From there she writes that she also is to be involved in classes for the elderly . |
| 6 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 7 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 8 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 9 | At the same time Mandela 's remarks indicate that he , too , recognises the need to involve all the parties in the democracy negotiations if they really are to be democratic . |
| 10 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |
| 11 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 12 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
| 13 | Ultimately , it too was to be opposed , on the same grounds . |