Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unifying factor between them was to be dynastic and personal . |
| 2 | But much more important for me was to be exposed to the experience of people working with the poor in the Third World whose suffering results from debt . |
| 3 | If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) . |
| 4 | In addition the DHSS would not agree to supply updates free of charge , so after much discussion three DHSS manuals were chosen but none of them was to be updated . |
| 5 | Film had always played an important part in the admiral 's career ( he had founded the Royal Naval Film Corporation ) , and rather than write his autobiography , he had recorded , with John Terraine as questioner , some seven hours of reflection on his life and personal relationships , and had left instructions that none of it was to be shown publicly until after his death . |
| 6 | The Paris to Rouen railway was being extended to Le Havre , and the line cut straight through Dr Flaubert 's land ; part of it was to be compulsorily purchased . |
| 7 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 8 | Churches long sealed with all their histories in them were to be opened to me this day . |
| 9 | The worst thing for her was to be alone . |
| 10 | On the evidence of the Aristotle File he seemed — potentially , at least — a curse , yet if the reports on him were to be believed , he might yet prove the greatest asset the Seven possessed . |
| 11 | It was hardly flattering , with its account of the miserable climate — the vehement cold and the winds — and the forbidding landscape , with many rough mountains ( for it was to be another two centuries before Rousseau was to alert the attention of Europe to the beauty of mountain scenery ) . |
| 12 | Readership was still small relative to the whole population , but among it were to be found most of those active in the leadership of TANU and other areas of African advancement . |
| 13 | He could n't bear to see Daniel Marsh fawning round his wife like a besotted mongrel , and any other man who looked at her was to be immediately discouraged . |
| 14 | As for those ‘ not rigorously demonstrated , ’ anything contrary to the Bible involved by them was to be considered ‘ undoubtedly false . ’ |