Example sentences of "it [be] to [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is we , the spectators , who are expected to again experience what it is to be one nation , all pulling together . |
| 2 | It is to be four feet high . |
| 3 | It is to be seven feet tall and yet to have one 's feet on the earth which the creator made . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was to be 1858 before the government explicitly extended freedom of speech , but inadvertently it was beginning to relax as early as 1856 . |
| 6 | It was to be five emperors , ten governors , and about 40 years on before the hill-top occupants of Eildon Hill North were rudely dislodged by the Romans and Newstead fort established . |
| 7 | It was to be 1925 before the downward pressure in wages was to again produce the threat of major industrial conflict in the coalfields . |
| 8 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 9 | It was to be one of the actor 's greatest roles . |
| 10 | It was to be one of the worst times in the whole five years . |
| 11 | It was to be one of the most adventurous and rewarding expeditions Gould undertook during his stay in Australia . |
| 12 | It was to be 24 days before the last hard-core protesters gave themselves up . |
| 13 | It was to be three more years before his uncle died , thus becoming the longest-lived Verne-Smith that anyone had heard of . |
| 14 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |