Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be [art] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these , the first , Type 1 , was the most important ; it was to be a large multi-engine landplane capable of flying from London to New York non-stop . |
| 2 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |
| 3 | She had no idea whether it was to be a large gathering , or just a few intimate friends . |
| 4 | Operation Crusader , Auchinleck 's offensive to push Rommel back out of Cyrenaica , was to be the largest armoured operation undertaken by British forces at that time . |
| 5 | It was to be the largest march ever organized by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign , with profuse pre-publicity , and an obliging media reaction — talking of ‘ revolutionary threats ’ , and Home Secretary James Callaghan being quizzed on television as to whether the gathering should be banned . |