Example sentences of "were now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were now to withdraw to corridors with a width of 3 km , along ( i ) the 315-km road , rail and oil pipeline running through central Mozambique to the port of Beira ; and ( ii ) the 540-km railway along the Limpopo river from the Zimbabwean border to Mozambique 's capital , Maputo . |
| 2 | The decade began with the American Library Association 's Standards for school library programs , which gave a very thorough rationale for the new type of services the school libraries were now to support : |
| 3 | However Crete was invaded the day before the arrival of 800X at Malta , where they were now to remain , attached to 830 Squadron , and were to play the role of night intruders , attacking airfields in Sicily with 20 lb. bombs . |
| 4 | To my mind , it would be a stylistic improvement if Community legal texts were now to abandon the use of the word ‘ whereas ’ for the purpose of introducing their recitals . |
| 5 | If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … . |
| 6 | The young earls who attended the Dunstable tournament were now to take a leading part in Edward 's wars , and with a new generation of earls came a new strategy . |
| 7 | Elections to the National Assembly were now to take place through the direct and secret vote of the population — deputies having previously been elected by members of each of the country 's 14 provincial assemblies ( which were popularly elected ) from among their own members . |
| 8 | On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly . |
| 9 | It was in the Cup that Northampton were now to make the headlines . |
| 10 | The main objectives were now to abolish poverty among children and halt the decline in the birth rate . |
| 11 | The same ship had brought two 16-pounder , two 12-pounder and two eight-pounder [ 7.3 , 5.5 and 3.6-kg ] guns , which were now to prove their value . |
| 12 | If we were now to consider the many sonnets of celebration of the Friend where the Thou outweighs the I we would find a similar dedication to the other without , I feel , any disabling by modern tastes — self-abnegation . |
| 13 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |