Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miserably , she backed out of the room , not wanting to desert Mrs Browning and be held responsible for her collapse , if collapse there was to be . |
| 2 | What a wedding there was to be . |
| 3 | ‘ Men should not be found in sufficient numbers to do all the work there is to be done , and wages would rise as they should do ! ’ |
| 4 | Under the plan there were to be changes in public finance policy ; budget deficits were to be limited to 10 per cent of total revenue ; government bonds were to be issued on the Muscat securities market to replace dependence on foreign borrowing ; the state general reserve fund was to be strengthened by a transfer of oil revenues ; a contingency fund was to be created to " cope with any international or domestic variables " ; and privatization of selected assets was to go ahead . |
| 5 | In return there was to be a Commission of Inquiry into hospital workers ' pay . |
| 6 | Though what enchantment there was to be found in that love , she failed to see . |
| 7 | On Saturday evening there is to be a special party here : an orchestra , dancing , and several important guests . |
| 8 | Whatever knowledge there is to be gleaned from this year 's batch of accidents will not be of an academic nature , but will be used to teach and to train for the future . |
| 9 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
| 10 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 11 | At officer level there was to be a chief executive ( in place of the former town clerk ) whose role was to advise the Policy and Resources Committee and head a small management team ( consisting mainly of chief departmental officers ) which would prepare plans and programmes as well as co-ordinate policy implementation . |
| 12 | At the local level there were to be branch juvenile exchanges and wherever possible branch care committees , and the duties of both corresponded to those of their London counterparts . |
| 13 | But for the receiving-station there was to be life after death . |
| 14 | In the autumn there was to be a break in his usual routine . |
| 15 | This familiar story about the wedding feast at Cana of Galilee points to the deeper reality there is to be found in Christ . |
| 16 | On one side of the animal there were to be letters and a number which would identify the revenue district , sub-division and village of the animal . |
| 17 | This year there were to be no festivities , however meagre . |
| 18 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |
| 19 | According to the agreement there are to be four events a year , each with a minimum 150 participants . |
| 20 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 21 | This time there is to be no law or sanctions . |
| 22 | Twenty ships were to be sent with grain supplies to Gascony , and an expedition there was to be headed by the earls of Lancaster , Lincoln , and Warwick , along with Hugh Despenser ( later Earl of Winchester , q.v . ) . |
| 23 | At each stage there was to be a reshuffle of cars in depôts , so that the worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first and the better cars from a depôt closing were moved to another one . |