Example sentences of "i [be] to be [art] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer .
2 ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’
3 I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’
4 ‘ Then I 'm to be a spectator , ’ she said .
5 Now I was to be a sales assistant .
6 : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down .
7 It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again .
8 I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts .
9 And it was because you told her I was to be the baby 's legal mother when the adoption went through . ’
10 As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs .
11 I was to be the poet , he the novelist .
12 I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign .
13 With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ?
14 One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find .
15 By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium .
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