Example sentences of "they be [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they 're to buy two sizes too small , that 's why it do n't look right . |
| 2 | Instead , they were to receive 5 per cent of their balances by way of a cash distribution . |
| 3 | They could , theoretically , have radiated worldwide , just as they were to do 130 million years later , when the rhynchosaurs and synapsids disappeared . |
| 4 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 5 | They were to have one son . |
| 6 | They were to have one son , Daniel , born in 1768 , and a daughter , Frances . |
| 7 | They were to have one son . |
| 8 | They were to have six children ( five sons and a daughter ) : Jean Baptiste ( b 1732 ) , Antoine Jacques ( b 1733 ) , François ( b 1735 ) , Eugène Menin ( b 1737 ) , Jacques Louis ( b 1740 ) and Marie Geneviève . |
| 9 | They were to have eight children , of whom six died in extreme infancy and only two sons , Frederick Arthur and Leslie , survived . |
| 10 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |
| 11 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |