Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the perspective of reformers and administrati , if collectivism was to participate in the restructuring of society by making provision for its efficient management , then working-class boys could no longer be ignored . |
| 2 | What the widow , divorcee or sorrowing woman fails to realize is that if the grieving were to stop the interest might diminish , or if intimacy were to develop to the point of involving responsibility , comfort would be withdrawn . |
| 3 | From its first policy statement it was clear that the initiatives for college courses and development was to come from the institutions themselves . |
| 4 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 5 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 6 | So if disorder were to decrease in the contracting phase of the universe , one might also expect it to decrease inside a black hole . |
| 7 | If time were to run from the accrual of the cause of action , i.e. when the expenses were incurred , summary proceedings might often be statute-barred before they could be brought , especially where there was an appeal against the demand . |
| 8 | The thugs struck days before production was to start in the Russian city of Kursk . |
| 9 | Irwin 's first big political initiative as viceroy was to extract from the British government permission to make a formal declaration that dominion status was the goal of British policy for India . |