Example sentences of "he was [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |
| 2 | Like the latter two , he was to die a violent death , but that was not in the mind of his flatterers at that time . |
| 3 | He was to use a black briefcase fitted with a concealed 9mm pistol and silencer . |
| 4 | Instead he announced that he was to lead a National Government . |
| 5 | He was born in London in 1555 , eldest son of a Master of Trinity House , from whom he was to inherit a substantial property . |
| 6 | He had lived his life in dependence on his heavenly Father : if he was to give a true representation in human terms of the nature of Yahweh , then he needed to live , as man , in constant obedience to Yahweh both as his anointed Ruler and as his obedient Servant . |
| 7 | Last week he announced that he was to undertake a radical review of public spending and to look at the ‘ nitty gritty ’ of the welfare state . |
| 8 | He was to have a wide , if rather scattered , influence in English theology through the nineteenth century , and served to introduce into it some of the same impulses that Schleiermacher brought in Germany . |
| 9 | At first Wolff 's duties were to manage the yard and provide engineering skills ; but later , through his links with the Jewish community in Britain and Hamburg , he was to bring a large amount of business to the yard . |
| 10 | He also informed his father that he was to compose a two-act opera entitled Alexandre et Roxane as well as a sinfonia concertante for his Mannheim friends . |
| 11 | Perhaps because after an almost fatal spasm , Coleridge thought his marriage was now bearable — although on this eight-day storming and often precipitous walk around the mountains and lakes he was to write a passionate letter to the woman he desired as his mistress while perched on the highest mountain in England . |
| 12 | ARTHUR SCARGILL , the miners ' president , refused yesterday to deny reports that he was to become a Labour MP . |
| 13 | In fact , by the mid-1970s , Karajan 's reputation and authority were such that he was to become a central player in effecting the greatest of all musico-technological revolutions of our times , the switch from LP to the laser-tracking compact disc . |
| 14 | Walter Legge once said that Karajan was not interested in politics , except of the musical variety , of which he was to become a consummate master . |
| 15 | He was to become a leading exponent of night intruding later in the war , bringing his personal score to 162 before being shot down over France by Flak , and dying of his injuries from the crash which followed , in July 1943 . |
| 16 | Technically , Sami was a confidential informant ( CI ) for Michael Pavlick , the DEA 's country attaché in Paris , but he was to play a vital part in Operation Goldenrod , a project preoccupying the NARCOG task force in Nicosia when Coleman arrived there , and which was to touch off the chain reaction of events that exploded over Lockerbie 21 months later . |