Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At one time I thought my vocation was to be a surgeon or doctor . |
| 2 | I really needed a rest and my hope was to be fit for the start of the National League programme at the end of September , but I doubt if that will be the case . |
| 3 | The interior of my mind was to be shaped according to his merchandising plan , with circular display racks of concepts standing in aisles of cogitation , flanked by long shelves groaning with brightly coloured little ideas . |
| 4 | Well my question was to be erm would your guests be happy to return to a Kuwait the same as it was before , but having listened I feel somewhat enlightened , although perhaps they 'd still like to answer the question in that form . |
| 5 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 6 | In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy . |
| 7 | When I pondered this I decided my role was to be a walking example , an end product , a result , a victim . |
| 8 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 9 | At the Dixie Dude Ranch near the town of Bandera in the Texas hill country it was clear that my arrival was to be the excuse for a night out . |
| 10 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 11 | Then I thought it might be an in-body experience — that my soul was to be confined to my body for some sinister theological reason. , |
| 12 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 13 | Its prince was to be elected by the Bulgarians , confirmed by Turkey with the assent of the powers , and was to belong to none of the great reigning houses of Europe . |
| 14 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 15 | Sport was indeed her first love , and her ambition was to be a PT teacher . |
| 16 | For both of them , their work was to be a spokesman for God , taking His message to people who did n't really acknowledge Him in their lives . |
| 17 | Her marriage was to be arranged by Albret and another Bordelais knight , Barrau de Sescas , whom Bertrand appointed as his executors . |
| 18 | This station was not to survive , but its influence was to be extensively felt . |
| 19 | Far from leading a more Christian life , Margery after her breakdown thought only of outdoing her neighbours , for ‘ all her desire was to be worshipped by the people ’ . |
| 20 | Their acquiescence was to be encouraged by a campaign of information and by mobilising convinced peasants to persuade recalcitrant ones , but nothing could stop the tractors from moving in on the appointed day . |
| 21 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 22 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |
| 23 | But she made it clear their relationship was to be platonic . |
| 24 | Its paper was to be presented to a Market Research Society seminar last March when , with three days ' notice , the health department instructed the authors to withdraw it . |
| 25 | At first its role was to be consultative . |
| 26 | ‘ Cathay Pacific waited until all the other airlines ’ flights had left before announcing their flight was to be postponed until the next day . |
| 27 | BR 's 1973 ‘ Interim Rail Strategy ’ , which had initially received government approval , had proposed a doubling of the rate of investment up to 1981 , and its impact was to be seen in the rise in staff numbers by nearly 6,000 during 1974–5 , after years of virtually continuous decline . |
| 28 | Japan 's flight from her Eden was to be astonishingly swift . |
| 29 | In Belgrade , a Federal Commission consisting of incompetent but powerful top politicians and generals was authorised to lead the investigation , but their motto was to be : ‘ Silver Stands for Silence ’ . |
| 30 | She had made up her mind that her delayed birthday present to her daughter was to be a proper , shop-bought frock . |