Example sentences of "was to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 2 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 3 | Next morning Charles was to be seen approaching Hyde Park Corner once again . |
| 4 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 5 | The Expert stated that the proof of the argument was to be seen in many photos of Arabians . |
| 6 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
| 7 | But , to the great interest of all at Thrush Green , no husband was to be seen when she moved in . |
| 8 | Seb had stopped taking Gloria out and was to be seen every night with the rest of his team running in shorts and a singlet round the Greycoats ' playing field , being timed by old Plumpton . |
| 9 | ‘ The joiners shop contained scores of carpenters ’ benches , upon which every species of detail work was to be seen … door panels , door pillars ; … window frames and skirtings , … panels … ventilators , sashes , rests for water bottles . ’ |
| 10 | Each time she finished a film , she would tell Mum the title and once it reached the cinema , Mrs Pilling was to be seen at every performance . |
| 11 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |
| 12 | In the entrance hall at Egerton Grey Country House Hotel , a blazing fire hissed its welcome to Wales but no receptionist was to be seen . |
| 13 | But , on reaching there , no vestige nor any sign of any material ship was to be seen either near or away to the horizon . |
| 14 | On a recent flight over the area a crane was to be seen alongside the existing hangars , and the timber-framing for the first of the new houses was already taking shape . |
| 15 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 16 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 17 | The constable stayed with John Daubney for the rest of his shift and the signalman appreciated his company , but with no sign of the errant beasts and although both men peered regularly into the darkness and even went down to the lineside and checked , nothing was to be seen . |
| 18 | He went round the corner of the building shining his lamp but nothing was to be seen . |
| 19 | On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year-old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . |
| 20 | Almost at once the fog rolled away and in all that open bowl not a soul was to be seen . |
| 21 | Its uniform was to be seen in the massed ranks who paraded in Hyde Park and at Olympia or the White City . |
| 22 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 23 | Only a lonely rajah or two was to be seen now , solitary figures surrounded by servants , watching through elaborate brass telescopes acquired at one or other of the European stores in Calcutta . |
| 24 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 25 | In its northern part wheat was almost unknown , in the whole tract lying between Holkham and Lynn not an ear was to be seen , and it was scarcely believed that an ear could be made to grow . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Next day not a horse was to be seen . |
| 28 | For this section of the leadership , the Soviet past was to be seen in a much more positive light , while a much greater emphasis was laid upon discipline and central control in political and economic affairs . |
| 29 | If Lamarckism was discredited , then some entirely new mechanism would have to be suggested if evolution was to be seen as a truly natural process . |
| 30 | This was to be seen with more telling effect in the coal dispute which started some 6 months later . |