Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also closely associated with the work of George Devine and Tony Richardson at the Royal Court Theatre where he was to design 17 productions , starting with Look Back in Anger in 1956 . |
| 2 | I think that he 'd reached a stage in his life where he was to become less community minded and more geared toward the fulfilment of his own career . ’ |
| 3 | Mendès-France thereby demonstrated that it was more important to him to keep the French army free from supranational controls than it was to prevent German rearmament . |
| 4 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 5 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 6 | ‘ I would back myself to score 20 goals this season if I were to have three chances in every game , but those opportunities do not come so easy for me in Italy . |
| 7 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 8 | If I were to seek one word to describe the quality of these works of art many by famous names , many by local artists to whom the purchase brought rare encouragement — I should say that they are alive . |
| 9 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
| 10 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 11 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 12 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 13 | If yu were to eat brown bread . |
| 14 | I still remember my headmaster 's damning indictment : ‘ Jeannette could be a Cambridge scholar if she were to stop this nonsense of falling in love . ’ |
| 15 | She would need all her wits if she were to stand any chance of getting away from him . |
| 16 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |
| 17 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 18 | If you were to press this thing |
| 19 | If you were to ask that man what is more important under Heaven — his public achievements or the death of that person — his answer would not be the majority one , the public one , but the private and particular one . |
| 20 | If you were to ask twenty men or women in the street what they should do to avoid heart disease the majority would say , ‘ take more exercise and eat margarine instead of butter . ’ |
| 21 | If you were to let that iron cool , what form of iron would you actually have ? |
| 22 | If you were to use essential oil neat , that 's the little drops of oil , it 's too strong and it will h Well it wo n't harm you but it wo n't it might set up irritations . |
| 23 | I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work . |
| 24 | There was a feeling there had been a time when you needed both , but for the future it would help in general , and offer much better leadership if you were to create one body , and since you 're statutorily obliged to have a J C C , why not make it , actually make it work , so it meets more often , and it actually actively involves erm , er , er , er , at the political level , players at the political level . |
| 25 | but if you were to spend five years learning weird codes |
| 26 | Measure for measure , the paper is more expensive than if you were to buy full sheets and cut up the paper yourself , but pochettes are good when you want to try different weights or colours without paying for full sheets . |
| 27 | Let us be clear about this : if we were to deploy naval units , they could be effective only if they were authorised to fire . |
| 28 | If we were to prioritize these needs on a one to seven basis , one being the most important and seven the least , which would be the number one priority ? |
| 29 | Bryan Gould , who resigned from the shadow cabinet over Maastricht in the autumn , said : ’ If we were to abandon that position now it would be a remarkable break not only with tradition but certainly with principle . ’ |
| 30 | It strikes me if we were to use these cards I forget what the wording is on Patterns , but er if we , dear supermarket manager , we would like you |