Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These anxieties were shortly to lead to his mental collapse . |
| 2 | NEARLY one German in three believes the Nazi era had its good points and that Jews were partly to blame for their own persecution , according to a new poll . |
| 3 | We were about to leave for our unknown destination when we heard a well-known voice shouting ‘ Wait ! ’ in German . |
| 4 | Daphne 's huge bosom and vast posterior looked as if they were about to burst from her too-tight black costume ; Rose , small-boned and slender , looked remarkably young and pretty in an aquamarine bikini that suited her fair colouring . |
| 5 | Lear only sought employment under the Gould regime when he had been forced to abandon the Parrots , and the Goulds were about to start on their second publication . |
| 6 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 7 | In Latin America , in North and South Africa , in some parts of Asia , and in the Australasian colonies , there had been tentative beginnings to railway-building in the middle of the century , but the great explosion of lines was not to come until its last decade . |
| 8 | With some reluctance Ben had agreed , but only on the understanding that outside the classroom the teacher was not to speak without his express permission . |
| 9 | The one who was doctrinaire was Williams , who regarded the iambic measure as a chief curse of the English legacy from which American poetry must free itself if it was ever to stand on its own . |
| 10 | She was about to return to her own chamber to put her clothes away again when an urgent hiss came at her from down the gallery . |
| 11 | At that time , , who had been a graduate of , and teacher in , my department at U.C.L. , had accepted a chair at U.C.L. , and was about to return to his old department once again , having spent a number of years at the University of Durham . |
| 12 | Jack Lewis was about to embark on his professional career as a college tutor at Magdalen ; and since not everyone is familiar with the way Oxford functions , it might be worth explaining exactly what his work was going to entail . |