Example sentences of "was [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 2 | From Alianor 's point of view , this was to be Anne Mowbray 's second meeting with her young lord since their arrival at the Tower . |
| 3 | My brew for this breeding attempt was to be tap water , rain water and tap water filtered through peat in equal measures , which gave me readings of 6pH and 2DH |
| 4 | One , John Anderson , Viscount Waverley , a wartime Chancellor and Lord President , was to be Lord Privy Seal and ‘ overlord ’ for supply and raw materials and of the Treasury and Board of Trade . |
| 5 | That was to be Herr Hess 's pledge of his intent . |
| 6 | The show following was to be Frank Cellier 's Dorothy — a true musical play , or comedy . |
| 7 | The next lessee , for just one year , was to be Captain Lovelace Gylby , another flamboyant character credited with temporarily losing the island in a card game . |
| 8 | I was to be Connie Fraser , Joel the doctor attending me . |
| 9 | Messages were transmitted that this was to be work experience for teachers . |
| 10 | The chairman was Lord Renwick ( of Associated Television ) and the Chief Executive Director was to be Geoffrey Pardoe , the Project Manager of the just-cancelled Blue Streak rocket . |
| 11 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |
| 12 | Very appropriate therefore , that 11 years later , it was to be Geoff Yeadon , at the age of 40 , watched by Geoff Crossley , that linked the lines connecting the two caves . |
| 13 | Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward . |
| 14 | At Vergina , later in the fourth century , the quality of recently discovered fresco-painting suggests an established tradition which might go back to Archelaos ' time ; and continuity is also suggested by Pliny 's statement ( Natural History xxxv.62 ) that Zeuxis gave Archelaos a painting of Pan , who was to be patron deity of the third-century Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas ( see the coin illustrated as frontispiece to W. Tarn ( 1913 ) Antigonos Gonatas ) . |
| 15 | It was felt that was totally contradictory as community care was more expensive and required a lot more time and resources if it was to be quality care . |
| 16 | Time , at last , to call a baby boy after father himself , so this was to be Benjamin Titford , junior — destined to become a silversmith by trade , and a bit of an entrepreneur like his uncle William Charles . |
| 17 | The intermediary was to be Queen Victoria , whose eldest daughter had married the Prussian Crown Prince , and in the hope of enlisting the Queen 's support Eugénie was once again despatched to England in August 1869 . |
| 18 | The consequence of these developments was to be party government . |
| 19 | This was to be Pilgrimsway Loki . |
| 20 | China 's parliament , the National People 's Congress , approved on April 4 the Basic Law which was to be Hong Kong 's " mini-constitution " after 1997 , with 2,600 votes in favour , 16 against and 37 abstentions . |
| 21 | On the morning of the Melbourne Stakes , which was to be Phar Lap 's warm-up race for the Melbourne Cup three days later , he was shot at from the window of a car as he returned from exercise . |
| 22 | One of the principal figures within the Association was to be Henry Newbolt , imperialist poet , celebrant of the mystique of the public school , future chairman of the Board of Education Committee which reported on the state of English in 1921 , and — like Haldane — a supporter of the national efficiency group in its aims of planning imperial policy , improving education , and recapturing commercial prosperity . |
| 23 | These have to do , inter alia , with technology : for instance , the World Broadcasting Satellite Administrative Radio Conference WARC 1977 ) allocation of the frequency spectrum for DBS conceived of as a national service , or the video communications or ‘ cable ’ plan of 1982 , whereby France was to be world leader in interactive fibre-optic networks — and so win export orders . |
| 24 | United States officials announced on March 19 that the new Soviet ambassador to Washington was to be Viktor Komplektov . |