Example sentences of "he [was/were] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holly heard only occasional talk about the burned office because the job of the men around him was to get the food inside their guts , get the warmth into their throats . |
| 2 | Bellerophon ‘ slew the Amazons , women peers of men ’ and Heracles , the most popular of Greek heroes , found that the Ninth Labour assigned to him was to seize the girdle of the Amazon queen . |
| 3 | Suppose he were to encounter the Ryemarks or even Robin Tatian ? |
| 4 | He would need to ring for a cab if he were to regain the Party conference in comfort . |
| 5 | Olechowski needed the support of the IMF if he were to renegotiate the terms of Poland 's US$1,600 million three-year extended facility which had been approved in April 1991 [ see p. 38162 ] but suspended in October after the previous government failed to meet IMF performance criteria on the budget deficit and expansion of domestic credit . |
| 6 | If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands . |
| 7 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There he was to search the Scriptures and the writings of the early Fathers and write a book which would be distributed to the universities and would enable them to give their advice as to whether the Pope had authority to enable a man to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 10 | He was to oppose the motion , an act of ‘ disloyalty ’ of which many disapproved . |
| 11 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 14 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 15 | He was to plan the operation with the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ and was allotted an area near the Suez Canal at Kabrit as a base . |
| 16 | Dos Santos on Oct. 10 cancelled a visit to the USA , where he was to attend the UN General Assembly , having failed to obtain high-level meetings with US politicians , and in protest at " hostile US policy " towards his government ( which remained unrecognized by the USA ) . |
| 17 | He was to join the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother in the procession of Garter Knights to St George 's Chapel for the service . |
| 18 | His target , when he should be considered fit and ready , was the European centre of SIS operations , a house in The Hague disguised as the ‘ Continental Trading Corporation ’ , where he was to join the staff of agents run by Major H. R. Stevens and his deputy , Captain S. Payne Best . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the evening when he was to undergo the experience , unique for a Prime Minister of this century , of winding up a debate with the certain knowledge of defeat at the end of his speech , Tom Jones saw him in his room behind the Speaker 's chair . |
| 21 | Wide-eyed and dazzled from his epiphany , Oldfield announced that he was to marry the daughter of his Exegesis instructor and Richard must be best man . |
| 22 | With Vance , he was to co-chair the UN-EC peace initiative . |
| 23 | He was to follow the course of the stream many times , latterly in the company of William and Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 24 | On his return to duty , and the award of a DSO , he was ordered to Bomber Command where Harris confirmed that he was to command the Pathfinder Force . |
| 25 | The more I repeated those I was willing to talk about , the more determined he was to accept the job . |
| 26 | If he was to prevent the outbreak of rebellion , or stem a flood of appeals outside his jurisdiction , he was bound to operate within the limits laid down by regional custom and privileges . |
| 27 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 28 | When they arrived in Brides Haven Rachel Pritchard welcomed Leonora with a cup of hot , strong tea , but Bryn soon cut across his wife 's chatter , pointing out that they must set out at once if he was to make the return trip before dark . |
| 29 | They said that he was to prepare the execution of the deed . |
| 30 | Just as at Northampton he questioned the merit of the Southern League after shaping a team that mastered it , so after his later Championship triumphs at Huddersfield and Arsenal , he was to question the league system that was the framework of those triumphs . |