Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 2 | As was the case with their administrative reforms , the liberals of the nineteenth century were to rest their offensive on different ideological foundations ; but their practical demands on the Church remained , largely , an extension of the regalism of the late-eighteenth-century civil servants . |
| 3 | Under the Feb. 15 quota system Qatar and Libya would suffer the heaviest pro rata cuts , equivalent to 10.24 per cent and 10 per cent of their current quotas respectively , while Venezuela and the UAE were to reduce their production by 9.68 per cent and 9.63 per cent respectively . |
| 4 | And if she were to approach her husband on that basis , that 's a lever of power , is n't it ? |
| 5 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 6 | Decades later , both Bentham and de Tocqueville were to add their support to these essentially libertarian ideas by arguing that total freedom was very much preferable to any form of suppression . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if we were to take our sample from those families with above-average measured incomes , we would expect to find that many of them had only temporarily high incomes so that average transitory income would be positive and Y p < Y. Similarly , for a sample of families with below-average measured incomes , we should expect to find that Y T < 0 and Y p > Y. |
| 8 | It would be possible for me to call them all if they were to limit their speeches to 10 minutes . |
| 9 | If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ? |
| 10 | The Young King 's opportunity was getting nearer , but if he were to show his hand at last , he needed an excuse , a justification for the war which would make sense in his father 's eyes and just might lead him to condone the attack on Richard . |
| 11 | The President in office was to suspend his membership of political parties , but the Constitution guaranteed freedom to political parties and public associations [ for clampdown on democratic parties see p. 39010 ] . |
| 12 | Bede 's main object in life was to transmit his knowledge in intelligible form to his contemporaries and successors , and in this he was eminently successful . |
| 13 | Beginning at Sheffield University on January 31 , the tour was to weave its way through nineteen ( mainly university ) dates before finishing triumphantly at Manchester 's ultra-prestigious Free Trade Hall on February 13 . |
| 14 | My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by . |
| 15 | Given all these considerations , some supposedly empirical , but others more clearly normative , Schumpeter concluded that the proper role of the people was to choose their rulers through competitive elections , and then leave them to get on with the business of governing . |
| 16 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 17 | His only concession to emotion was to give his shirt to one of the ball-boys — a valuable memento for one German lad . |
| 18 | Also in March I announced that Dr David Owen was to give his endorsement to one of the parties in the general election . |
| 19 | In 1039 Earl Leofric of Mercia 's brother Edwin was killed in battle by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn , king of Gwynedd and Powys ( north and mid-Wales ) , who was to extend his power over all his countrymen before meeting his death during Harold Godwinsson 's Welsh campaign of 1063 . |
| 20 | His favourite tactic was to divide his forces into two armies , one under himself or a son , and the other under a powerful noble with experience of battle . |
| 21 | For the next six years Picasso , like Braque , was to fix his attention on single figure compositions , still lifes , and , to a lesser extent , landscapes . |
| 22 | The L.T.E. 's basic obligation was to run its operations on ordinary business principles , which the fare reduction contravened . |
| 23 | He described how difficult it was to interest his seniors in this useful discovery . |
| 24 | The next question under the Convention was to determine what kind of legal regime would be acceptable under Article 8(2) , assuming of course that it could meet the requirement of being ‘ in accordance with law ’ . |
| 25 | Baillie-Stewart had renounced his British citizenship before the war and applied for German naturalisation , a gesture which was to save his life in 1946 . |
| 26 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |
| 27 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 28 | All the three turtles shown belong to one species , but differ considerably ; it was upon the existence of such differences that Darwin was to base his theory of natural selection leading to divergence and eventually to the emergence of new species . |
| 29 | Another trick of the mother 's , now he was about to leave , was to delay his departure by various requests . |
| 30 | Airlines attracted the attention of corporate buccaneers like Carl Icahn who was to turn his attention to that icon of American might USX ( the former United Steel ) . |