Example sentences of "were [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures . |
| 2 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 3 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 4 | The INPFL forces were to remain at their Caldwell base . |
| 5 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 6 | Although descriptions of these defences on Atlantic and North Sea coastlines could in pal t be gleaned from aerial photographs , much lay hidden ; as the Canadians were to find at Dieppe . |
| 7 | LL.D. , to form one of a company of scientific visitors who were to meet at his residence at Hartwell Park , near to Aylesbury . |
| 8 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 9 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 10 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 11 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 12 | ‘ If we were to look at the constitutional situation we may have to look at the position of the Princess Royal . |
| 13 | It seems to me that when one looks at the brief findings and reasons of the justices given at the conclusion of the hearing , or even if one were to look at the more elaborate reasons which they have compiled subsequently for the purpose of his appeal , then their decision was plainly wrong . |
| 14 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
| 15 | If we were to look at the balance sheets of these other banks , we should find that their customers ' deposits had increased and that this increase was matched on the asset side by an increase in their operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 16 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 17 | The advancing edge or step is now twice the normal height and so would require twice the amount of new material if it were to advance at the same rate as the other layers . |
| 18 | We were to leave at two and return no sooner than five-thirty . |
| 19 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 20 | The committee added a rider that , in future , scrubbers were to start at seven a.m. instead of eight , and stop at ten on Sunday morning and mid-day on Saturdays . |
| 21 | If Paul or Erlend or I were to die at Siward 's hand , you would feet as he does . |
| 22 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 23 | Under a plan to which all factions had consented , the AFL troops were to assemble at the Barclay Training Centre and Camp Schiefflin , in Monrovia , the Liberian capital . |
| 24 | To this end , she hired two young graduates as her personal assistants , who were to live at Rhydoldog . |
| 25 | Suppose Hirst were to fail at Old Trafford , and he might because there is no natural partner for him there . |
| 26 | The lower clergy were to pay at the reduced rate of the 1254 valuation , but , far more significantly , the tax was to be collected , supervised and delivered to the king by the clergy themselves — a procedure thereafter tenaciously preserved by Winchelsey and his successors . |
| 27 | They were to drop at various locations north of Château-Chinon . |
| 28 | Executives at the Ford of Britain headquarters at Brentwood in Essex have undoubtedly already looked into the future and examined what would happen if car production were to end at Dagenham . |
| 29 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 30 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |