Example sentences of "[conj] be [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest Microprocessor Report says the cancelled Motorola Inc 68050 , a minor upgrade of the 68040 , fell prey to a resource battle with two next-generation implementations that were to follow the 68050 : the LP040 , a low-cost , low-power re-implementation of the 68040 in 0.5 micron technology due to sample in late 1993 , and ‘ Q ’ , a fully static modular , superscalar , superpipelined part that borrows from the 88110 and will probably come out as the 68060 . |
| 2 | However , some of the problems that were to haunt the postwar aviation industry had already begun to appear . |
| 3 | It was academic theory that was to define the two great periods of French station-building which produced in the Gare de l'Est and the Gare d'Orsay terminals which came to be regarded as definitive types . |
| 4 | This necessarily brief account has concentrated on the debate over the retirement condition between 1908 and 1948 , and the curious ‘ complicity ’ of the labour movement in demanding a measure that was to confirm the economic uselessness of old people . |
| 5 | It was a system of recruitment that was to enable the depleted population of Ulthuan to field mighty armies of citizen-soldiers well beyond what the declining population would suggest was possible . |
| 6 | While people were dreaming dreams and singing songs , and the Evil One and his angels strutted their mastery over the world like cocks in a barnyard , the omnipotent God made the decisive move that was to win the Great Battle for the world . |
| 7 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 8 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |
| 9 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 10 | Portentous signs had been seen , however , of an issue that was to dominate the political landscape of West Ham beyond the boundaries of local representation over the next five years . |
| 11 | What an academic gaffe — that was the year that saw the publication of Charles Darwin 's The Origin of Species , a book that was to shake the very foundations of Western thought ! |
| 12 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 13 | Fujitsu Ltd is to begin selling its VP 2000 Unix-based vector processors in the US , and is to target the commercial sector : the 10 models in the VP 2000 range run Fujitsu 's UXP/M Unix SVR4 implementation , with around 100 applications available . |
| 14 | From the restrictions placed on and was to emerge the familiar Phillips curve : . |
| 15 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 16 | As are to play the Pied Piper , Bs the Mayor of Hamelin and Cs the parent of a child held captive by the Pied Piper . |