Example sentences of "there was to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be great a embankment across the Welland Valley to carry the canal southwards well to the east of Barnes 's line but eventually joining the Grand Junction again very near to Long Buckby . |
| 2 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 3 | There was to be one last visit from Father O' Neill . |
| 4 | He brought the doctor back to earth in Doctor Dolittle 's Return ( 1933 ) , and there was to be one last book , Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake , built round the story of the Flood with Dr Dolittle as a latter-day Noah . |
| 5 | Er , page thirty-six , paragraph two The new Environment Officer The first , the question first , and as I understand it , please correct me , erm , the agreement policy was , there was to be one Environment Officer , Personal Assistant . |
| 6 | There was to be much fun , many pleasures , many stabs of joy ; but no more of the old security . |
| 7 | But there was to be Norman Lamont and a tr and treasury ministers , three or four of them . |
| 8 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |
| 9 | It was stipulated that there was to be 23 hundred pounds to the " Tunn " and five score and twelve pounds to the hundred … " the bank to be made clear of ore Twice every year at least a week before ye 29th Sept and ye 1st day of May … " |
| 10 | There was to be further discussion within the organisation over Church Relations , and an assurance was given by management that there were no further redundancies in the pipeline . |
| 11 | Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet . |
| 12 | There was to be more submission . |
| 13 | If there was to be any relationship , she wanted to see his head on the pillow most mornings . |
| 14 | For , without doubt , there was to be another visit — and many more to come . |
| 15 | Who could this be ? she wondered rather crossly , not having realised that there was to be another woman there . |