Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] been [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My father was to have been bailiff , now that and all other honours are out of his reach .
2 Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night .
3 The order , written under the direction of White House counsel Boyden Gray , was to have been part of a " signing statement " attached to the bill .
4 The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project .
5 This was to have been Green 's fourth RAC campaign .
6 The proposed minimum was to have been 75% of the average taxable income of a US company in the same industry segment as the foreign-owned firm .
7 In Rome yesterday it was evident that the Gazza deal was doomed because Juventus who were to provide half the four million that was to have been Lazio 's down payment had gone cold on the deal .
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