Example sentences of "were [to-vb] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 2 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 3 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 4 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |
| 5 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 6 | You will not be entitled to redundancy compensation under Section 10 of the Scheme in the event that your appointment were to terminate at the expiry of the fixed term without being renewed or extended . |
| 7 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |