Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It is noticeable that managements are more willing to give responsibility to the project leader than they are to delegate commensurate authority . |
| 3 | ‘ We believe it is no more difficult , no more expensive and no more labour intensive to provide healthy , nutritious , tasty , well-presented food than it is to provide unhealthy food . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 6 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If yu were to eat brown bread . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | She would need all her wits if she were to stand any chance of getting away from him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I believe that an element of local knowledge is essential if you are to acquire maximum enjoyment from this volume . |
| 19 | If you are to finish any piece of woodwork you must learn to live with faults and find ways to disguise them . |
| 20 | It is a must if you are to play good golf , and I suggest you learn it . |
| 21 | While there are good ideas tumbling from your head , you 'll need to slow them down if you are to make any use of them . |
| 22 | However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation . |
| 23 | If you are to have one set of valuable notes , do n't lend them even to friends ! |
| 24 | If you 're to do any service to Harry , you must not appear in this . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll be needing another hand , ’ he said , ‘ if you 're to have more stock . ’ |
| 26 | If you were to press this thing |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you were to let that iron cool , what form of iron would you actually have ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work . |