Example sentences of "[pers pn] were to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |
| 3 | If you were to script this sequence , these are the size descriptions that you would write down against each of the shots . |
| 4 | Well , if you were to sort of pop off , I 'd go on being a countess , would n't I ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it might be interesting if someone like you were to nose around INCUBUS headquarters in Helsinki , ask some questions . |
| 6 | There is a a colossal amount of inconsistency er of a kind that if we were to practice such inconsistency in our courts there would be there would be absolute outcry and it 's it 's something of a scandal I think that er that the police and the executive generally are apparently able to get away with inconsistencies which we are not . |
| 7 | If George Wigg 's political hatreds extended to George Brown and Richard Crossman , then they were to surface intensely with regard to the Profumo affair . |
| 8 | The question of where they were to camp had been a matter of debate during the 1930's , so it seems it is not only the horse trading which is being revived . |
| 9 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 10 | One way out of this dilemma was to adopt conventions which led to definite formulae without worrying too much about how close they were to nature ; and this was proposed by the French chemist Charles Gerhardt in the middle of the century . |
| 11 | When older workers were compared on the basis of their proximity to pension age when the redundancies took place , the proportion of the three years between redundancy and interview spent in retirement increased dramatically , the closer they were to pension age . |
| 12 | It was believed that they were to stage yet another demonstration at the Party conference , this time during tomorrow 's crucially important debate on immigration . |
| 13 | If the battle in which Penda fought Cwichelm and Cynegils at Cirencester , dated to 628 in the Chronicle A ( s.a. 628 ) ( which is almost certainly a few years too early ) , can be safely placed before 633/4 , Penda was already a formidable force before Hatfield , but even if it were to date to a little after 633/4 it still reveals the wide-ranging character of Penda 's early activities . |
| 14 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |