Example sentences of "it [was/were] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 2 | It was to be a memorable trip in so many different ways . |
| 3 | Of these , the first , Type 1 , was the most important ; it was to be a large multi-engine landplane capable of flying from London to New York non-stop . |
| 4 | It was to be a four-engine aircraft , possibly with gas turbines , with a range of 2,750 miles . |
| 5 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 6 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | It was to be a big article . |
| 8 | For much of Act I , too , Jonathan Summers 's Posa seemed as if it was to be a rough-and-ready performance by this gifted baritone . |
| 9 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 10 | Although the stanchions are in place it was to be a further 3 years before electrification was completed . |
| 11 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 12 | ( It was to be a story with a price . |
| 13 | It was to be a ‘ free association of equal partners ’ — Local Education Authorities , teachers , employers , higher education — offering advice not only to Ministers but to all its member interests . |
| 14 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 15 | It was to be a ballad based on the supernatural , as were other popular ballads of the time , and would retell in lively narrative and simple verse form an old mariner 's hypnotic tale . |
| 16 | However , like the Temple in the Book of Ezekiel , it was to be a vision only . |
| 17 | by the time Sophie-Carmen was six , she was improvising freely at the piano ( though it was to be a year-and-a-half before she had any formal instruction in music ) . |
| 18 | It was to be a formal , confidential statement , she had said . |
| 19 | It was to be a very full weekend of well organised and highly enlightening meetings ; the opportunity to hear some excellent speakers : and the chance to renew old friendships and make new ones . |
| 20 | I must early have realized that it was to be a regular correspondence , for I kept her letters , though I usually destroy letters as soon as I have answered them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |
| 23 | It was to be a championship forged from hard-earned placings against a very closely balanced opposition . |
| 24 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 25 | But it was to be a cruel illusion . |
| 26 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 27 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 28 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
| 29 | It was to be a combination tax haven , service station and home to fringe businesses . |
| 30 | This must be a taste of how it was to be a Marine in armour , whose servo-suit responded to the motions of his body , magnifying these … |