Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 2 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 3 | By the tenth century slaves were rarely to be found in France or Germany ; they were a minority , though still a substantial minority , in England ; they were still common in southern Europe ( see pp. 84–6 ) . |
| 4 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 5 | Owners of lands in the forests were henceforth to be allowed to bring them into cultivation and to make mills , fishponds and other constructions outside the covert , to agist their pigs in their woods at their pleasure , and to have all the eyries and honey in them . |
| 6 | If production and exchange were henceforth to be determined by those who produce and consume , what functions would their former controllers then perform ? |
| 7 | Juries were to deal with serious criminal cases , elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases , and trials were henceforth to be held in public . |
| 8 | After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville . |
| 9 | The President and the Assembly of the Republic ( formerly the National Assembly ) were henceforth to be elected directly by universal suffrage and secret ballot . |
| 10 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 11 | Abuse , suggestions of courses of action for me to follow that are physically and technologically impossible were much to the fore . |
| 12 | It accepted that public spending should be used counter-cyclically after the war , but private firms were merely to be exhorted to plan their spending to iron out booms and slumps , and there was no mention of the thorny question of anti-trust policy . |
| 13 | Subsistence pensions , at 40s 0d for a married couple or 24s 0d for a single person , were only to be attained after twenty years of slowly rising rates . |
| 14 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |
| 15 | Funding and subsidy schemes were only to be allowed provided they were open to all artists in the Community . |
| 16 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 17 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 18 | But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin , and Loos 's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects . |
| 19 | Then , great kindness and great love were only to be expected and accepted . |
| 20 | Under the Bretton Woods system , exchange rates were only to be changed in the face of fundamental disequilibrium , and GATT was designed to restrict the temptation to raise tariffs . |
| 21 | These funds were only to be disbursed when the compact agreement had been signed . |
| 22 | Star spotters on the other hand were only to happy to see Sir DAvid who 's filming a new TV series aptly enough on plants . |
| 23 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 24 | Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his . |
| 25 | In 1734 , for example , when Campbell of Ardkinglas was faced with a contest in Stirlingshire , this government politician attempted to secure the support of some of the freeholders who were normally to be found in the interest of the Duke of Montrose . |
| 26 | Such terms were scarcely to Edward 's liking , but he confirmed the treaty on 13 June , and in a fatal misjudgement , for which the Despensers may have been in part responsible , Edward agreed to allow his son Prince Edward , now aged eleven , to go to France in his place to do homage . |
| 27 | You know he used to see to a lot of our meals , and see that we were away to school and such-like . ’ |
| 28 | Leeds did well , but it looked as though top points would be shared with Huddersfield as , on the last Saturday of the tournament , the Peacocks were away to Bradford City while Huddersfield , two points behind , were home to Bradford ( Park Avenue ) . |
| 29 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 30 | I 'll come with you , I said , I thought you were away to Mandy 's . |