Example sentences of "he [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the evidence of the Aristotle File he seemed — potentially , at least — a curse , yet if the reports on him were to be believed , he might yet prove the greatest asset the Seven possessed . |
| 2 | It would be the most terrible calamity if he were to be killed not knowing ! |
| 3 | Pastiche or not , ‘ Disco Dancer ’ lived in the kind of predictability that Morrissey , if he were to be truly distanced from The Smiths , would denounce fervently . |
| 4 | She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills . |
| 5 | What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove ? |
| 6 | If he were to be an ‘ S. ’ also , a Stephen or a Sam , then how was she to know which of them had given her orders ? |
| 7 | ‘ If , for example , he were to be engaged in the reconnaissance of the Unknown Lands , ’ Alexei supplied . |
| 8 | I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 9 | ‘ He is remarkably well handicapped on 10st four , and if he were to be handicapped again he would go up another stone . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 11 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 12 | Glasser 's prose is sometimes declamatory and sententious in an old-fashioned sort of way , and sometimes awkward ( ‘ Hidden in the near future , he was to be proved right ’ ) . |
| 13 | He was to be frequently found at various ‘ gigs ’ with his Buckskin Boys — a square-dance group of three , of which he was the leader . |
| 14 | He was to be , as he called himself later , ‘ the poet of the two great intimacies ’ : together , in balance , and genuinely . |
| 15 | If Moby became mildly excited , or interested in another dog , he was to be allowed forward on the extendable lead to meet it . |
| 16 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 17 | Since he was to be the founder of the service of carols and nine lessons , he made a permanent mark on English , and not only English , life and religion . |
| 18 | Tony gave me his thoughts on the situation — about how pleased he was to be wandering around at four in the morning , in the pitch black , in deep snow , in the cold , in the wind . |
| 19 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 20 | And Dean set up ATP with backing from RKO , although he was to be rapidly disappointed in his expectation that the company would provide him both with technical expertise and favourable distribution in the US . |
| 21 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 22 | Counsel said that there was evidence that Palmer liked to cuddle and play with the baby and how proud he was to be the baby 's father , as he thought . |
| 23 | He began by saying how glad he was to be in Europe again , which gave him an opportunity to outline some of the developments taking place in other regions of the world , and to describe the next phase in the development of the world car . |
| 24 | He was to be given two weeks salary for each year of service . |
| 25 | He was to be allowed to go to the cinema with her . |
| 26 | He was to be the thirteenth , the equal of the Twelve . |
| 27 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 28 | He was to be , in fact , the common progenitor of Jews , Muslims and Christians , as North explained in a note to Reagan later . |
| 29 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 30 | If after that he could not find sureties for his future good behaviour , he was to be banished . |