Example sentences of "was to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arch of her eyebrows declared the pretence was to be total . |
| 2 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 3 | The DYP deputy chairman Suleyman Demirel , 67 , was to be Prime Minister . |
| 4 | ‘ I have worked for many centuries to lift it , Nuadu , but it is a long hard task , for the punishment was to be eternal . ’ |
| 5 | She wanted to be safe , and the only way she knew how to be safe was to be rich . ’ |
| 6 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 7 | And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny . |
| 8 | No person was to be present at an operation other than with the consent of the surgeon who was performing it . |
| 9 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 10 | In 1614 the Prince of Wales himself had to be excluded from a dinner at which the Russian ambassador was to be present , since it was feared that the latter would refuse to accept a place on the king 's left if the prince were seated on his right . |
| 11 | Since the unforgivable primal sin was to be boring , the Victorians gave us intricate wrought-iron work , sculpted columns , mullioned windows , stained glass , mosaic floors , tiled maps , delicate portes cochères , exquisite stone tracery , clock-towers , crenellations , campaniles , wood-panelled booking halls , friezes , glass canopies , triumphal arches , balustrades , gables , chimneys , turrets , spires , drinking-fountains , ornate platform seats , coats of arms , baronial fireplaces , even majestic gentlemen 's conveniences in monumental marble or bold ironwork , a constant and unending source of delight in a craftsmanship at its most complex , painstaking , and delicate . |
| 12 | The Soviet Union would only permit a united Germany if that state was to be neutral , the argument went , and that way lay the old nightmare of a Germany swinging between East and West . |
| 13 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |
| 14 | Part of the ‘ price ’ was to be redistributive fiscal policy , and policy aimed at producing increased industrial investment , but as regards the latter aim the NEB was conceived as a state merchant bank , a broker in the tradition of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation rather than a ‘ rogue elephant ’ wreaking industrial havoc on the basis of leftist dogma . |
| 15 | Ironically , it was to be Iranian offensives in the south that triggered the developments which brought the inland war close to an end , with Iraq holding the advantage . |
| 16 | Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred , excepting reason itself . |
| 17 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 18 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
| 19 | It is common ground that there was no ‘ good cause ’ within the meaning of section 34 ; the university was relying on the three months ' notice term contained in the letter of appointment coupled with the provision in section 34(3) that Mr. Page 's tenure was to be subject to the terms of the appointment . |
| 20 | The debt was to be subject to a five-year moratorium . |
| 21 | Sovereignty over the 520 sq km Patagonian plateau Laguna del Desierto region , some 3,000 km south of Buenos Aires , was to be subject to a further international arbitration process . |
| 22 | On Jan. 14 it was announced that the government had reached agreement with the United States for the rescheduling of repayments of debt principal and interest totalling US$47,000,000 , due between June 1 , 1991 , and June 30 , 1992 ; part of this — US$18,700,000 due to the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) — was to be postponed for 10 years , while the rest was to be subject to a six-year grace period . |
| 23 | If permission were granted , any resulting increase in land value was to be subject to a development charge . |
| 24 | She was surprised to find how easy it was to be passive . |
| 25 | The treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji was drawn up in 1774 in both Russian and Turkish versions but with a master copy , which was to be authoritative in case of dispute , in Italian . |
| 26 | To be too direct was to be unfeminine . |
| 27 | The North was to be Communist in ideology , and led by Ho Chi Minh and the South non-Communist and led by President Diem . |
| 28 | Education was to be compulsory from 5 to 15 years of age . |
| 29 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 30 | At least Ferdinando 's reaction was to be penitent and vow he would not visit the caffè again . |