Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 2 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 3 | She was shocked and upset and what she needed most was to be allowed to rest , alone . |
| 4 | It is important to ascertain the source of overseas receipts to ascertain how income derived therefrom is to be taxed . |
| 5 | The age of the Church to which Jesus looked forward is to be marked by evangelism and the Spirit . |
| 6 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |
| 7 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |