Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " 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 | If he were not to take her home , where would they go ? |
| 5 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 6 | We knew this meant that we were not to repeat it . |
| 7 | They were not to feed her or coax her , and any food refused was to be removed without comment . |
| 8 | In the morning be told the others they were not to disturb her . |
| 9 | Eventually she admitted to us that Charlie was stealing them to sell and we were not to mention it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you were not to accompany us I would have to find someone in New York . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was the last time we were ever to see him alive . |
| 20 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 21 | They were out to destroy me , I was sure . |
| 22 | I thought they were out to get me to be honest with you . |
| 23 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 24 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 25 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he thought Theo unduly alarmist in warning him that women like her were out to fleece him . |
| 27 | On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly . |
| 28 | ‘ The little girl in the film Poltergeist had her audience sitting on the edge of their seats when she revealed to her family that the strange creatures from the TV were back to haunt them all . |
| 29 | Mr when he gave evidence , assessed the parent 's contribution as quote absolutely amazing really , not just what they did to help the nurses but also in insisting that she was n't stupid , she just could n't talk they made it clear to the nurses and doctors that she could understand and we were n't to treat her like a vegetable . |
| 30 | ‘ When I left my number at your office , I said that you were n't to call me during the day . |