Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | To have to sit there and take his abuse was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer 's chair . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |
4 | Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires . |
5 | Legh offered twenty pounds , the gem which his dead mistress had prized so much , and some gold earrings , saying that the infant was to be called Topaz . |
6 | In the heart of this early Frankish kingdom lay the region which , much later , was to be called Champagne . |
7 | At this level the ‘ victim ’ was to be heard pounding on the wall . |
8 | One , firstly , if equal distribution was to be achieved peasant mobilization and increase produc erm if equally distribution was to achieve its goals of peasant mobilization and increased production , there had to be enough land available to bring most peasants up to an independent pe peasant status without encroaching upon the existing er middle peasants . |
9 | In the Ministry of all the Talents his reward was to be made secretary to the Board of Control , 1806–7 . |
10 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
11 | Leopold II was to be crowned King of Bohemia in Prague in October , and a suitable opera was hastily required — in less than two months . |
12 | For the first time she began to wonder if she was to be given leadership beyond the context of Africa . |
13 | Within this context , education was to be given priority as the chief means " for promoting in social life that equality of condition with which men now faced death on the battlefield . " |
14 | Since it was revealed that Middlesbrough was to be given environment city status the borough council has organised a number of initiatives to help improve the town . |
15 | The whole sculpture was to be sprayed gold which would symbolise the prosperity to come . |
16 | Under a court ruling , Pastor Tokes was to be shifted east after pressure was put on church elders who acceded to the regime 's order to move the troublesome clergyman away from the town . |
17 | In addition he was to be found building amphitheatres in Soissons and Paris to provide shows for the citizens . |
18 | Langton was to be promoted archbishop of Canterbury by Innocent and so began the long quarrel between the Holy See and King John . |
19 | It was to be entitled Drive , He Said which was taken from the Robert Creely poem : |