Example sentences of "life [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 2 | He said that Stompie must be taken to a hospital if his life was to be saved . |
| 3 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
| 4 | Before television and feminine liberation , when the men were out drinking or at football , the women on their off-duty moments were usually to be seen at the window , where their social life was to be found . |
| 5 | It coexisted with an ardently self-purifying ethos , where every emotion in literature and life was to be tried and tested against moral examples offered by the great poets and novelists of past time : by Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience , by George Eliot 's Middlemarch , by the fiction ( above all ) of D. H. Lawrence . |
| 6 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 7 | From Kintu sprang all the Masai , whose life was to be a great odyssey . |
| 8 | And from now on , Tess 's life was to be completely different . |
| 9 | Once more her life was to be justified . |