Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headnote in the Weekly Law Reports is wrong : it states that the lease provided that disputes were to be referred to arbitration , whereas in fact the lease between Ipswich and Fisons said that if Fisons did not accept Ipswich 's terms the matter should be referred to an independent expert . |
| 2 | Could you tell me what is the policy of your party on this matter and if you were to be elected to power at the next election what would your party do ? |
| 3 | Surplus junior posts were to be converted to consultant posts , with additional service work being met by the new staff grade and a small increase in the number of senior house officers . |
| 4 | No one was henceforth to suffer death or mutilation for taking the king 's deer : the penalties were to be limited to amercement , imprisonment or exile . |
| 5 | Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it . |
| 6 | He had the expatriate knack of being lent things and getting himself looked after on his return to the native land , and as they talked it became apparent that we were to be entertained to lunch by the gallery owner . |
| 7 | ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil . |
| 8 | All Spaniards , and all those who sheltered them , he declared , were to be put to death . |
| 9 | Witty , ambitious and idealistic , his ambition was to be elected to Parliament , his dream to become Prime Minister . |
| 10 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 11 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 12 | The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death . |
| 13 | One of the pictured men was to be brought to trial accused of murdering Julie . |
| 14 | Brightness 's destiny — so we were informed — was to be returned to prison where she will have to perform mindless tricks for the entertainment of rouble-paying humans . |
| 15 | The question whether any weight was to be attached to evidence of actual transactions , and if so how much , was one of fact . |
| 16 | State investment , rare enough in itself , was earmarked for industry ( in the 1923 national budget less than 5 per cent was to be allocated to agriculture ) . |
| 17 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 18 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 19 | In a meeting with the King on 3 October 1688 , the bishops asked James to dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and promise never to erect " any such court again " , to " desist from the Exercise of such a Dispensing power as hath of late been used " ( the determination of which was to be left to Parliament ) , to restore the corporations and the universities , and to give office only to those who were legally qualified . |
| 20 | The Gospel was to be offered to Jew and Gentile alike . |