Example sentences of "that was [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost .
2 His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life .
3 It 's thirty years since Frankie Valli had his first hit with the Four Seasons , with a song that was to become his trademark .
4 When the moment of the ultimatum came and went , Neville Chamberlain sat before a microphone at 10 Downing Street and read the speech that was to become his monument .
5 As miner in the Fife coalfields , he blew most of £7 a week on trips to Edinburgh to buy clothes , firstly the drape suits and the boot-lace ties of the old Teddy Boy style , then on signing for Raith Rovers , the more tutored continental clothing that was to become his hallmark in the '60s .
6 Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century .
7 A choice that was to change her life in more ways than one .
8 At the age of 18 , Antony heard the passage of scripture that was to change his life : " If thou wilt be perfect , go and sell that thou hast , and give it to the poor " ( Matt. 19 : 21 ) .
9 He was slight and short-sighted , with a gentle smile that belied an amazing toughness and an ability to withstand cold that was to beggar our belief .
10 Four years later he directed the Italian première of Eugene Onegin , and was an early champion of the Pathétique Symphony in 1933 , and Romeo and Juliet was another item that was to enter his repertoire .
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