Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . |
| 2 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . ’ |
| 3 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 4 | The restrictions governing such use which were shortly to be articulated by Gierek , Gomulka 's successor , provide the charter and justification for the military 's conduct in 1981 : |
| 5 | Holden and Holford 's City of London Plan put the seal on the principles of precinct planning and the canalization of traffic , crucial aspects of redevelopment which were soon to be seen in Coventry , Plymouth and elsewhere . |
| 6 | The Mirror revealed the appalling contradiction of so-called ‘ slimmers ' ’ meals which were up to 44 per cent fat . |
| 7 | In contrast , the plots at Penkridge , which were up to 30 m ( 100 ft ) deep , may well have been employed as gardens or animal pens . |
| 8 | He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible . |
| 9 | As well as accepting the Dutch theologian 's views on salvation , these English Arminians , or Laudians , exhibited a number of other conservative theological and liturgical positions , which were not to be found in continental Arminianism . |
| 10 | The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 11 | He was forcing her to be careful of what she said ; setting up areas which were not to be talked about . |
| 12 | There were a number of warnings from RSGB which were included , and which were later to be added into the company prospectus . |
| 13 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 14 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 15 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |
| 16 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 17 | In 1734 , for example , when Campbell of Ardkinglas was faced with a contest in Stirlingshire , this government politician attempted to secure the support of some of the freeholders who were normally to be found in the interest of the Duke of Montrose . |
| 18 | But these social and technological changes hardly brought a more leisurely or carefree life to the farming families ( who were later to be emigrants to Britain , see Table I ) . |
| 19 | At Bologna in the late 1180s Lothar may have made the acquaintance among his fellow students of Peter Collivaccinus of Benevento , and others , who were later to be important in the legal developments of his pontificate , collecting papal legal decisions or decretals . |
| 20 | The procedure for ascertaining the opinion of members of the Commons and of Peers and of prominent people in the Party Organization was then conducted by persons who were later to be christened ‘ the Magic Circle ’ . |
| 21 | But who were there to be marketed to ? |
| 22 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it was brought before the House , Baldwin came down , spoke movingly of ‘ our young King and Queen ’ who were about to ‘ dedicate themselves to the service of their people ’ , and pulled out , gently and without tension , all his old stops about industrial peace , democracy and the avoidance of strife . |
| 24 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 25 | A hundred and thirty one of those were people who were out to work or unoccupied . |
| 26 | What was that beak we used to mob up — air-nair , you were up to Wettie Wilkinson , for Constrair . |
| 27 | Once she realised what you were up to and told you where to go , you seemed to lose interest in her career . |
| 28 | You were up to and over your knees in water in the trench : it was supposed to be our dug-out and it was coming through these bits o' wood and we were a-sodden wet through and cold . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like to know what you were up to while I was away , ’ said Constance . |
| 30 | Sir Bruce asked : ‘ Did he notice what you were up to ? ’ |