Example sentences of "[was/were] to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were to be stopped at all , then it could only be by means that fell entirely outside the constitution . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 3 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 4 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 5 | Clearly , incapacity or wilful refusal to consummate a marriage as presently defined , if it were to be retained at all as part of the law , could only apply to those relationships presently regarded as marriages . |
| 6 | In Canada and the United States representatives of the Travellers ' Aid society were to be found at most large stations to advise women . |
| 7 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 8 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 9 | According to Andrew Boorde , the author of the first English book of domestic medicine ( his Dyetary ) lettuce was to be avoided at all costs by anyone who valued his or her sex life . |
| 10 | A shoot-out was to be avoided at all costs , and though Weaver was certainly armed , the moment he was confronted with two heavy-duty thirty-eight calibres , the game would be up . |
| 11 | The squadron of cavalry was but a small contingent of a much larger military force despatched to Champagne by the Monis government : Épernay was to be protected at all costs and between twenty and forty thousand cavalry , dragoons and infantry poured into the town . |
| 12 | A plebiscite to resolve the matter was to be held at some future , unspecified , date . |