Example sentences of "were to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 2 | Perón 's capacity to deliver the tangible benefits that established unions working against the state apparatus could not hope to obtain for their members ( labour 's share of the national income increased by twenty-five per cent between 1946 and 1950 ) ensured that the loyalties of massive sectors of the post-1955 labour movement were to Peronism rather than to Communism or socialism . |
| 3 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 4 | Outworn institutions were to stagger on until , in some cases , the outworn machines and sluices which they maintained also collapsed . |
| 5 | Well those chips were to kilo grams . |
| 6 | The question of where they were to camp had been a matter of debate during the 1930's , so it seems it is not only the horse trading which is being revived . |
| 7 | If someone were to work part time for a corner shop keeper who had no other employees there would be no way of collecting tax at that employment . |
| 8 | Despite Citrine 's attempt to settle this issue by firmly rejecting the proposal , this organisational option still had many advocates within the industry whose views were to surface in later years . |
| 9 | If George Wigg 's political hatreds extended to George Brown and Richard Crossman , then they were to surface intensely with regard to the Profumo affair . |
| 10 | If the battle in which Penda fought Cwichelm and Cynegils at Cirencester , dated to 628 in the Chronicle A ( s.a. 628 ) ( which is almost certainly a few years too early ) , can be safely placed before 633/4 , Penda was already a formidable force before Hatfield , but even if it were to date to a little after 633/4 it still reveals the wide-ranging character of Penda 's early activities . |
| 11 | How if the boys were to stay-on and get their Highers they needed the Security etc . |
| 12 | To her surprise and relief he came up trumps , and the next time Stephen checked her progress she was able to report that the furnishings were to standard and on time . |
| 13 | Of those calls , 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’ |
| 15 | One way out of this dilemma was to adopt conventions which led to definite formulae without worrying too much about how close they were to nature ; and this was proposed by the French chemist Charles Gerhardt in the middle of the century . |
| 16 | If the weapons for a retaliatory strike were to hand , then it was ‘ damned high time ’ to hit back . |
| 17 | The main classes of vessel which made up a fleet were first-class armoured ships ( which were to hand out and absorb the punishment of a pitched battle ) , other ironclads used for cruising , coast-defence and the many functions of the old sail frigates , and the ‘ flotilla ’ of smaller ships , of which the commonest were gunboats and the newest , torpedo-boats . |
| 18 | This was a decision that would be taken after a climactic battlefield disaster but in the meantime two alternatives were to hand . |
| 19 | When Mariner 10 reached Mercury the following data on planetary magnetic fields were to hand : the Earth rotates quickly , almost certainly has a large molten iron core , and has a strong dipole field ; Mars rotates quickly , but probably has no molten iron core , and has no detectable dipole field ; Venus probably has a sizeable molten iron core but rotates slowly , and has no detectable dipole field ( perhaps also because it has no solid inner core — see section 4.2 ) ; the Moon rotates slowly , probably has no liquid iron core , and has no detectable dipole field . |
| 20 | Would it not be a good idea if the airlines , when checking in passengers in those countries from which large quantities of drugs come to this country , were to hand each passenger a paper in his or her own language clearly explaining that if they bring drugs into the United Kingdom they are likely to be caught and , if they are caught , they are likely to go away for a very long time indeed ? |
| 21 | When all that was available was the free-fall bomb , air-delivered systems were essential to the deterrent , but , once the first land and sea-launched ballistic missiles were to hand , it was possible to have weapons systems that operated from comparatively safe sanctuaries and , in the case of Polaris , from the virtually impenetrable depths of the sea . |
| 22 | Taylor 's men were to hand in their weapons at the NPFL bases at Firestone , Naama , Salala , Ganta , Gbarnga , Zwedru , and Toedi-Mesurado . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , it might be interesting if someone like you were to nose around INCUBUS headquarters in Helsinki , ask some questions . |
| 24 | It is now reckoned that 80 per cent of laws enacted by Congress emanate from the executive — if one were to weight these laws in terms of importance , almost certainly that proportion would be higher . |
| 25 | When older workers were compared on the basis of their proximity to pension age when the redundancies took place , the proportion of the three years between redundancy and interview spent in retirement increased dramatically , the closer they were to pension age . |
| 26 | Party members were to reregister voluntarily in the new party . |
| 27 | Bari 's three marriages were to agent Walter Kane , Producer Sid Luft ( who later married Judy Garland ) and Dr Nathan Rickles , for whom she worked as a nurse for a while in 1956 . |
| 28 | If you were to script this sequence , these are the size descriptions that you would write down against each of the shots . |
| 29 | Last year , 46% of sales were to CAD/CAM users : this year that may drop to just 8% . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |