Example sentences of "were [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 2 | If only Mr Brooke were to stick his head above the parapet he would soon realise that fact . |
| 3 | Following his nature , and before his sixteenth birthday , Edward Thomas had somehow combined a love of nature and of literature , twin aspects of realized contemplation that were to characterize his life as a writer of prose and verse . |
| 4 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 5 | But since humans are communicators by nature , a special distance-making language was essential if the mandarins were to maintain their power over the peasants . |
| 6 | Very few of those who were initially hostile to Eugénie were to change their opinion in the next 18 years , and in the case of some , only death ended an enduring aversion to the Empress . |
| 7 | We were to spend our honeymoon in a rather dingy hotel at Glenfarg in Perthshire . |
| 8 | The clay tile and its descendant , the plastic pipe , were to take their place alongside the plough and the axe as among the major agents in the settlement of England . |
| 9 | They were to owe their appointment to the trade union 's and the owner 's representatives on the board ; and , if they could not agree , to the binding decision of an independent commission . |
| 10 | His research work at the university 's petroleum warfare department led indirectly to him joining Esso , and within weeks he was faced with one of the many challenges that were to punctuate his rise to the top of the industry . |
| 11 | Both characteristics were to distinguish his rule over the next forty years . |
| 12 | But there will , of course , be no chance of that happening unless Britain were to show its enthusiasm for the project from the outset . ’ |