Example sentences of "that he [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 2 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 3 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 4 | Mario , however , had a contract with Chapman and that contract had stipulated , as at Mario 's insistence it always did , that he was to be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 5 | He was also a very reluctant martyr : only when the learnt that he was to be burned in spite of his abject recantations did he withdraw them . |
| 6 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 8 | He died suddenly 5 October 1918 at Half Moon Street , London , but even then his delicate sense of humour did not desert him : he left instructions in his will that he was to be cremated — a most unusual request for a Roman Catholic — and his ashes taken to Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and placed within Oscar Wilde 's tomb . |
| 9 | Stevie had received a tip that he was to be featured . |
| 10 | He quickly learned that he was to be used in Scandinavia , because of his languages , but at present — with no expertise of any sort in clandestine communication — he had to train . |
| 11 | A clause in a lease was silent about the status of the rent reviewer : all it said was that he was to be a surveyor . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , problems still remain with regard to delivery and it seems that in the case of an individual delivery will still be necessary as the old law still applies , with the result that a document will be treated as delivered when it is clear that it was intended by one of the parties that he was to be bound by the terms of the document . |
| 13 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 14 | God spoke on three February mornings to John Reeve , and told him that he was to be the prophet and his cousin was to be Reeve 's mouth . |