Example sentences of "they be [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were eventually to settle more or less permanently in a pleasant apartment in the Kastanienallee — ‘ Chestnut Avenue ’ . |
| 2 | They were soon to become very much worse . |
| 3 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 4 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 5 | There was an orchestra playing during the meal and any fears that they were there to drown out any potential marital disputes were soon dispelled . |
| 6 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |