Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 2 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 3 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 4 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 5 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 6 | In November 1946 , the pre-war decision to get rid of the trams was reaffirmed , but they were to be replaced by motor buses and not trolleybuses . |
| 7 | But they were to be disappointed . |
| 8 | By conceding a large part of Reagan 's requests in both budget cuts and tax reductions , Jones hoped that compromise with the White House would be possible , but he was to be bitterly disappointed . |
| 9 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 10 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 11 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 12 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 13 | But it was to be completely apart from the real functions of government , and courtiers were neither expected nor permitted to be politicians . |
| 14 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
| 15 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
| 16 | But it was to be Cardiff and not Oxford , railways and not mathematics . |
| 17 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |
| 18 | This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning . |
| 19 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
| 20 | But it was to be a cruel illusion . |
| 21 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 22 | But it was to be another 20 years before the changes had marked effect . |
| 23 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 24 | The suspension was initially to be rescinded within four months , but it was to be renewed up to 1821 . |
| 25 | Not only was the state 's liability for compensation limited , but it was to be paid only if and when the owner of land suffered from planning restrictions . |
| 26 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |