Example sentences of "was there to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the BBC giving opportunities to women I was there to be chosen . ’ |
| 2 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 3 | ‘ Know what ? ’ she asked , knowing that Fritz was there to be toyed with . |
| 4 | It was there to be exploited . |
| 5 | ‘ I was satisfied up to a point today , but the game was there to be taken . |
| 6 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
| 7 | Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well . |
| 8 | Certainly , the claim was there to be used to Edward 's advantage . |
| 9 | Elvis — that particular musical agglomeration — never belonged to anyone in particular , then ; he — it was there to be fought for . |
| 10 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 11 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 12 | And this press was there to be read because under a range of pressures from open repression to financial disadvantage some men took initiatives to use the technology for their own as opposed to the dominant social purposes . |
| 13 | This did n't last long , however , as one customer thought it was there to be consumed ! |
| 14 | But there 's a procedure and the procedure , our stewards recognized that the procedure was there to be effectively operated and if words can resolve a problem , and that 's how we became trained in the situation affecting all our members . |
| 15 | It was there to be used , insofar as you had it ; and when you were short , you worked a little harder , and made good the deficiency . |
| 16 | She saw no sequence in what was happening , and no coherence , but she knew it was there to be seen , if only she could achieve the right angle of vision . |
| 17 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 18 | And if I had needed proof , it was there to be seen after . |
| 19 | By contrast , the political culture of the United States , always more populist in character than the British , took seriously the notion that public opinion was there to be wooed , cajoled , seduced but never ignored . |
| 20 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the idyllic side of undergraduate life was there to be enjoyed — though short on male companions as the pre-war ratio of male and female undergraduates was about reversed . |
| 22 | The game at St Andrews was there to be won . |