Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha and Ann were orphans , and were to be given away by the lord of the manor . |
| 2 | Then the ambassadors found their feet , and were to be seen at table , and occasionally with the King 's special officers . |
| 3 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 4 | One was that PNP appointees were ‘ real ’ teachers , not supplies or ancillaries , and were to be treated as such , even though their roles might be more diverse than the traditional anchor of class-teaching . |
| 5 | Two Germans were arrested in Bangkok in June and were to be extradited to Germany to face charges relating to Sonntag 's murder . |
| 6 | They were taking a trip to Canada and the States and were to be staying with Cassie 's Canadian aunt and uncle . |
| 7 | Preliminary drafts of a bill repealing the Group Areas Act had been completed and were to be presented to the Cabinet in mid-January . |
| 8 | They were sui generis , and were to be justified by considerations of policy . |
| 9 | The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service . |
| 10 | The armed forces were cut by 265,000 personnel , to 3,993,000 during 1989 , and were to be reduced by a further 184,500 during 1990 . |
| 11 | In the first district ( A ) all services provided by its own units were deemed to be " core " by the DGM and were to be supplied within the district " come hell or high water " . |
| 12 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 13 | These consisted largely of ministeriales , tenants originally unfree ( see p. 113 ) , who in Germany and the Low Countries were assuming increasing importance , and were to be found most frequently on royal and ecclesiastical territories , improving their status by regular military and administrative service . |
| 14 | The second set of compulsory powers were not to become operative until the ‘ second appointed day ’ and were to be brought into effect only if it appeared ‘ that it is necessary in the public interest to enable the commission to obtain authority for the compulsory acquisition of land by a simplified procedure ’ . |
| 15 | General elections were to be held in October and were to be accompanied by a two-part referendum . |
| 16 | Even at this early break in the morning , several husbands had lost bets and were to be glimpsed shouting at themselves in silence in corners . |
| 17 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 18 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 19 | Seb had stopped taking Gloria out and was to be seen every night with the rest of his team running in shorts and a singlet round the Greycoats ' playing field , being timed by old Plumpton . |
| 20 | The American art historian whom she had met in Perugia reappeared as professor on a sabbatical from his East Coast university , and was to be seen dining with Esther in restaurants beyond the reach of the undergraduate purse : the Arts Theatre Restaurant , Miller 's , the Garden House Hotel . |
| 21 | She had bought her own copy of the Koran and was to be seen reading it on her way to work in the morning . |
| 22 | Having achieved this , they provoked disquiet in two quarters : first , those concerned with the defence of Basrah , up the river to the north , and the nearby port of Umm Qasr ; and , second , the government of Kuwait ( an important source of support for Iraq throughout the war ) , which had already suffered air attacks and was to be struck again before the fighting was over . |
| 23 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 24 | Purism was to be unsullied by ornament , fantasy or individuality and was to be inspired by the machine . |
| 25 | That kind of anthropological writing was to become very fashionable after World War One , and was to be made into something of a fet fetish , by people like Bronoslaw Melanovski , here at L S E , Margaret , er , to quote the worst case , er , an an and others . |
| 26 | The authority initiating the request had , however , to be identified in the written request delivered by the consul , which was also to contain information about the parties and the nature of the document to be served and was to be prepared in the language of the state of destination . |
| 27 | This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students ' official youth organization . |
| 28 | The inter-war era saw the birth of some great cars , none of which could match the elegance and speed of the Type 35 Bugatti which first appeared in 1924 , and was to be credited with more than 2000 wins during its life-time . |
| 29 | Garcete also faced charges of involvement in the Sept. 29 attempt on the life of Hermes Saquier , a leading member of the main opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party ( PLRA ) , and was to be questioned on the military 's alleged involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 30 | Co-operation with the LEAs was equally important and was to be sought on a basis of complementary provision rather than through competitive relationships . |