Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight she was to chair the meeting , so she left the front door unlocked for any late-comers , and , having seated the nervous little reporter from the Advent in a position where she could see and hear all the ladies present , giving her at the same time a hastily written list of the names of those expected to attend , she called the meeting to order . |
| 2 | Thus he was to earn the gratitude of those who , on missing the Looe train at Liskeard , have hurried down the hill to catch up with it at Coombe Junction . |
| 3 | Vodafone Group Plc said yesterday it is to encourage the setting up of retail outlets that will offer a full range of cellular phones and after-sales service : it is not allowed to sell direct itself , but will jointly fund refurbishment and shopfitting of high street outlets with service providers and hopes to have 170 stores operating across the country by summer next year ; it looks to spend £10m over two years and aims for a shop on every major UK high street and up to 25 within the M25 London orbital motorway . |
| 4 | Later I was to meet a woman at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre who did n't want her youngest child to know what she had . |
| 5 | Later she was to launch the mini-dress on the world . |
| 6 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 7 | Years later he was to repeat the closeness of a working relationship with his chief under Alan Lennox-Boyd ( later first Viscount Boyd of Merton , q.v. ) at the Colonial Office . |
| 8 | We explained later it was to power a lightbulb so that we could read at night where there was no electricity . |
| 9 | Now it is to become a hotel , catering mainly for German tourists . |
| 10 | ‘ Tomorrow I 'm to take a look at some building plots which Paulo considers might be a good buy , ’ Vitor explained , ‘ So I arrived in Carvoeiro an hour ago and checked into my hotel . |
| 11 | Well it 's to get a job , to improve your living standards . |
| 12 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |