Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine Labour MPs were eventually to join it . |
| 2 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
| 3 | More immediately though , Carl Theodor moved to Munich , where members of his court were eventually to follow him , and Mannheim was plunged into a state of mourning with all concert , theatre and opera performances cancelled , and a considerable impact on the local economy . |
| 4 | These new reinforcements arrived only just before a resumption of activities which were swiftly to thin their ranks to an alarming extent . |
| 5 | She could not have borne it if he were suddenly to change his mind and demand that she give the whole thing up . |
| 6 | If he were not to take her home , where would they go ? |
| 7 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 8 | These troops of the Japanese 38 Division , being specially trained for amphibious assault , were not to waste their talents in chasing guerrilla bands , and their sudden departure surprised — not to say , relieved — the Australians , who considered these were the best troops they had fought . |
| 9 | We knew this meant that we were not to repeat it . |
| 10 | They were not to feed her or coax her , and any food refused was to be removed without comment . |
| 11 | In the morning be told the others they were not to disturb her . |
| 12 | We were now climbing fairly steeply into the mountains and silence was impossible if I were not to lose my quarry . |
| 13 | Eventually she admitted to us that Charlie was stealing them to sell and we were not to mention it . |
| 14 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 15 | This time , with deepening anger on the streets over price liberalisation , the hardliners were not to forgo their chance . |
| 16 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 17 | If you were not to accompany us I would have to find someone in New York . |
| 18 | The pasty-faced bureaucrats at New Scotland Yard were not to know he felt about as much at home there when he first arrived as a Martian . |
| 19 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 20 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |
| 21 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 22 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 23 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 24 | Eventually this plan was abandoned in favour of a completely new church and , in Mr Dwyer 's own words : ‘ — while God was pouring out His Spirit and building His spiritual house , a spacious and attractive sanctuary was rising for the accommodation of worshippers who were soon to fill it with songs of praise . ’ |
| 25 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 26 | At Gary 's funeral , 500 people packed the church and 200 more were outside to pay their tributes to the well-loved lad who was known to his friends as ‘ The Main Man ’ because he organised holidays , football and much of their social lives . |
| 27 | And of course the deterrents that we 've had , over the years , when they they 've been of the emotive and knee jerk sort , and I remember the short sharp shock for instance , under Whitelaw , they did n't work , because they were n't thought out , they were just to make them clap at the Tory party conference . |
| 28 | And i , it were just to show his authority , you know . |
| 29 | if you were off to do something and being mucked around for the day , in n it ? |
| 30 | It was the last time we were ever to see him alive . |