Example sentences of "here [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 2 | Here were to be found the flying schools , the workshops and the hangars of Bristol , Deperdussin , A V Roe , Sopwith , Martinsyde and Vickers . |
| 3 | Here was to be no outside elements , no objects or empirical fact or emotion ; it was a world of the mind , stark , pure , austere and coldly beautiful . |
| 4 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
| 5 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 6 | Opposition to the regulation considered here was to be expected from property owners … since it intruded on their interests not only directly , but also indirectly through the additional taxation necessary to finance its implementation . |