Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 2 | The book trade — where they were to be found in large numbers — differed from the other kinds of printing in several ways . |
| 3 | They had been trained in their own callings — pilots , navigators , gunners and wireless operator 's — and came together at No 19 OTU Kinloss where they were to be trained on Whitleys . |
| 4 | In the same year , Dustin was in London again as one of the guests at the Royal Command Performance of Love Story , where he was to be presented to the Queen Mother . |
| 5 | Born in York on 16th October , 1918 , he was baptised in St George 's Church where he was to be ordained a priest on 8th April , 1945 . |
| 6 | Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward . |
| 7 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |
| 8 | For example , she considered Yardley 's Foundation Cream highly desirable , and would purchase it at every shop where it was to be found , with the consequence that she must have had dozens of pots stored , all drying up , in the limited accommodation provided in her billet . |
| 9 | ‘ So I was to be delivered back to that fool , was I ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The four sets of parents went in to the Panel separately , although they were to be treated as one case . |
| 12 | Local education boards were established to have oversight of the day-to-day operation of the schools within their area , although they were to be firmly guided on the details of the curriculum by means of the Elementary Code of 1903 . |
| 13 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later . |
| 15 | Thus the Protestants preserved their future , although it was to be one which mimicked , in smaller fashion , the tragedy of Lebanon . |
| 16 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 17 | And Dean set up ATP with backing from RKO , although he was to be rapidly disappointed in his expectation that the company would provide him both with technical expertise and favourable distribution in the US . |
| 18 | His later role as a kind of travelling salesman of international anti-semitism is only tangentially related to the scope of this study , although he was to be of considerable significance in his role as vice-president of the IFL and the legacy he bequeathed to Arnold Leese was to help him revive racial nationalism after the Second World War . |
| 19 | It was , on average , considerably higher between 1805 and 1815 than it was to be from 1815 to 1825 . |
| 20 | And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it . |
| 21 | ‘ If I were to be wrapped up warmly , and … ’ |
| 22 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If I were to be denied my belief in the almost limitless potential of my students , I 'd give up . |
| 25 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 26 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 27 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 28 | I once had two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 29 | What would she do if she were to be discovered ? |
| 30 | What if she were to be stranded in the mountains — marooned by a blizzard ? |