Example sentences of "his [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain and Eliot discussed the substance of her meeting with Pascoe and his assertion that evidence to support his story was to be found in the financial records kept at the Post . |
| 2 | Witty , ambitious and idealistic , his ambition was to be elected to Parliament , his dream to become Prime Minister . |
| 3 | His fate was to be valued as a conversationalist , to his detriment as a writer , and to have a profound effect on those who were to become better known than himself . |
| 4 | He was an explorer and naturalist — his lecture was to be about his expedition to an unexplored part of the Canadian Arctic looking for wild geese . |
| 5 | Haig won his point , although the scale of his attacks was to be reduced . |
| 6 | His name was to be mentioned many times during the weekend and we missed him . |
| 7 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 8 | Yet he was endlessly intrigued with himself , and he decided early on that the only way he could make his mark was to be Decidedly Different . |
| 9 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 10 | Labour members were told of Mr Winmills decision in a letter , but according to his deputy , his leadership was to be challenged at the groups annual meeting on Saturday . |
| 11 | How would he act if he knew that his career was to be made into fiction , to serve as an object lesson , and a name of opprobrium , to the generations that followed him ? |
| 12 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |
| 13 | His wish was to be alone in the deserts of ocean , as others crave the solitude of deserts of sand . |
| 14 | Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 15 | His instinct was to be beside her even in captivity . |
| 16 | Brief as his role was to be in the battle , it was one of quite exceptional importance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He said that Stompie must be taken to a hospital if his life was to be saved . |
| 19 | His inclination was to be down at the yard . |
| 20 | However , his success was to be short-lived . |
| 21 | Knowledge of his locality was to be a great boon in 1749 when , as master of The American ( owned by Christopher Scott , a Hull merchant ) , he was able to recognize the coastline at Nantucket after a severe storm had blown the vessel off course . |
| 22 | However , his reign was to be a short one , for in 1191 he contracted a serious illness , and six years later he died . |
| 23 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 24 | One must wonder , therefore , how his dignity was to be maintained by the withdrawal of feeding . |
| 25 | Or so John-William Dallam 's lawyers had made clear to him when he had signed the marriage-contract a week ago , telling him what his allowance was to be , what it was meant to cover , by how much he could overdraw , to whom he would be answerable if his affairs fell into disarray , making it all sound more like an application for employment than a romance . |
| 26 | After mastering the language at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes , Paris , he went to Russia where , between 1898 and 1901 , he worked in Moscow , St Petersburg , Kiev , Odessa , and other centres , acquiring the detailed knowledge of the archaeology of the region on which his reputation was to be built . |
| 27 | When Stirling found out about the plan in which his unit was to be involved , he was even more furious . |
| 28 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 29 | His salary was to be £200 , and hers £180 per annum plus furnished apartments , rations and laundry . |
| 30 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |