Example sentences of "were [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He introduced him to Whitlock as Masala , his personal bodyguard , then told Masala that he and the other three Zimbalan bodyguards were to liaise directly with Whitlock . |
| 2 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 3 | Beattie asked to accompany the two who were to search upstairs . |
| 4 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 5 | The effect on a school would be devastating erm the school has already lost one teacher , the s the actual demand is increasing erm if we were to lose yet another teacher then what would we would be denying is education to the children , the best possible education . |
| 6 | Issues of class conflict within the group were to remain largely subordinate , as the matter of the nature and defence of loyalism itself was to dominate the scene right down to the present day . |
| 7 | Thus when the two English universities closed their doors , the Scots in the fifteenth century founded three , St Andrews , Glasgow and Aberdeen : an admirable example of the new Scottish combination of pride at home and interest abroad , in that these foundations were to remain largely first-degree colleges . |
| 8 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 9 | By now he had become a Test cricketer , having played in three of the exciting 1960–61 Tests against West Indies ( and substituted in the field in the tied Test at Brisbane , his first , at Melbourne , being the 500th Test match , and bringing him poignantly what were to remain best batting and bowling performances in an eight-Test career . |
| 10 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 11 | The Welsh Marches and the Midlands had been far more important as the power bases of major families and indeed were to remain so . |
| 12 | His father had risen to a leading position in the town of Ottery from a background of extreme poverty , and Coleridge 's surviving brothers were all gifted men whose descendants were to include not only scholars and bishops , but the Lord Chief Justice of England . |
| 13 | The Faculty of Homoeopathy would certainly concur with Simon Crawford 's view that it is absolutely unethical for any medicine to be sold as natural and especially as homoeopathic if it were to include pharmacologically active ingredients , whether hormonal or otherwise . |
| 14 | He seems to have realized , however , that there was a younger generation of artists who were to carry on his work . |
| 15 | But if you were to carry on and the woman was screaming no no no no get off get off get off , as far as I 'm concerned that 's rape . |
| 16 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 17 | Dalrymple 's evil vindictiveness is shown by the wording of a letter he wrote to the leader of the men who were to carry out his plans — ‘ It is a work of charity to be exact in rooting out that damned sept ( clan ) , the worst in all the highlands … . |
| 18 | On 16th however eight of them were despatched to Maleme airfield , Crete , from where next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern Greece at first light . |
| 19 | Spending departments were to carry out reviews of programmes by questioning existing commitments and to ask whether they should exist at all and not only how they should be carried out ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p. 99 ) . |
| 20 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 21 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 22 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 23 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 24 | They were to drive around a marked circuit whilst keeping a ball in a dish on the bonnet . |
| 25 | It was to be another twelve months before the inhabitants of the valley , including the people settled here at Halling , were to see again the Roman Armies , with the local menfolk Possibly among the British force opposing them . |
| 26 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 27 | But the terms of reference given to the committee were to see how A levels could be improved , in order that they should remain as ‘ standards of excellence ’ . |
| 28 | If you were to go ahead it would be strikebreaking . |
| 29 | If a scheme for generic substitution were to go ahead , the loss to British companies would not be limited to the so-called ‘ savings ’ to the NHS , but the entire amount of the sales of such products . |
| 30 | Many feel that this wild appearance would be severely diluted if the new scheme were to go ahead . |