Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy would need Merymose 's help if he were to proceed in that direction . |
| 2 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 3 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 4 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 5 | Officially the aims of the FMI were to promote in each department an organization in which managers at all levels would have : |
| 6 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 7 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 8 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from these five officials , the other members of the political executive committee were to work in that body alongside their regular jobs . |
| 10 | If you were to work in this sector , you would be using your knowledge of company law to contribute to the success of your employer 's business . |
| 11 | We need to know for certain that if a person were to suffer in this way , the care will be there for them . |
| 12 | Juries saw no problem deciding whom they were to despatch from this world : let similar bodies decide who is to come into it . |
| 13 | If he were to reflect on that , I do not think the hon. Gentleman would want it to happen . |
| 14 | So also the french Radicals in the Fourth Republic were to splinter in all directions , participating in governments of both left and right . |
| 15 | What a revolution there would be in our behaviour and attitudes if we were to stick to those two principles ! |
| 16 | A star that is 1.4 times heavier than our Sun has a Schwarzschild radius of only 2 km , and if such a star were to shrink to this size it would attain a mean density of , far beyond the density of nuclei . |
| 17 | Oh , she knew well enough that if he were to walk through that door now , she would not entertain him ; her pride would not let her . |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , that a person were to walk behind another person who suffered from a physical deformity ( such as a limp ) imitating it , for the amusement of his friends . |
| 19 | If Fernando Serra and Maria Luisa were to walk in this restaurant now — ’ |
| 20 | The people were to identify with this pain and share in God the Father 's pain for his lost children . |
| 21 | THE Soviet team Stroitel Kiev , who were to play in this year 's World International Club Championships at Crystal Palace next week , will not now do so after the organisers refused their demand for £1,900-a-game appearance money . |
| 22 | Railways throughout the East were to contribute to that greatest religious migration of all . |
| 23 | It was a characteristic that they were to share with all the minorities of Lebanon ; and later with the Israelis . |
| 24 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 25 | Now if on the other hand if you were to die within that ten year period |
| 26 | Such a policy of employing royal sons or brothers continued under the Lancastrians , as all four of Henry IV 's sons fought in France , and three were to die in that country . |
| 27 | For all she knew , the pilot in the Spitfire pursuing his enemy low across the fields was Johnny , and if anyone were to die in that encounter , it must not be him . |
| 28 | Okay so we 've looked at how to ensure you have a happy retirement but what would happen to your family if you were to die before that ? |
| 29 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 30 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |