Example sentences of "be to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia , who last night joined Prince Andrew for an outdoor operatic New World concert in the city , were to have boarded some of the 100 vessels .
2 If we were to have to suffer all the rigours of the directive to which my hon. Friend refers , it would cost employers substantial sums — billions of pounds — in the next year .
3 With the development of computerised registers of stolen art work and specialised magazines reporting thefts , one of the conditions to be met is to have consulted such sources ( of course the legal relevance of a register depends to a certain extent on the diligence of the dispossessed owner in reporting the theft ) .
4 But Ullman 's achievement is to have complemented this empirically-based intuition by a set of admirably clear hypotheses about precisely what visual computations may be involved , at least in the human case .
5 He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse .
6 What a madman Frankenstein was to have created such a thing , and to hope to keep its existence a secret !
7 If I was to have done that in this house , I 'd have packed my bags long ago ! ’
8 I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’
9 David Sole , Scotland 's captain , has also had to dig out the speech-making file following the midweek injury in Sydney to Nick Farr-Jones , Australia 's World Cup leader , who was to have headed this campaign which coaches Ian McGeechan and Bob Templeton hope will compound New Zealand 's problems .
10 The rally , which was to have featured all the razzmatazz of an American political campaign , with drum majorettes , a motor cavalcade , bands and balloons , was to have marked the beginning of the ruling National Party 's drive to recruit coloured , black and Indian members .
11 Everyone said how lucky she was to have snared such a prize as the marquis , but she would have given anything to have changed places with Mary Waters , her maid , who was fat , plain and single .
12 How fortunate Paul was to have married such a woman !
13 The achievement was to have finished another book rather than to have engaged with characters and plot . )
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