Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 2 | These were to find out the views of parents and staff about all aspects of nursery life at the outset and from this to prioritise agreed areas for development to form an action plan . |
| 3 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |
| 4 | The intentions behind the important reforms of 1988 were to tighten up the social security system in order to reduce the disincentives to work recognized as inherent in the poverty and unemployment ‘ traps ’ ( see Tables 16.7 and 16 . |
| 5 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 6 | More prophetic of the place women were to fill in the sewing trades was his description of those who sewed stays and bodices . |
| 7 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 8 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 9 | If you were to draw up the specification for the ideal material for electronic engineering , I guess it would be something combining the properties of the perfect conductor , the perfect insulator and the ideal semiconductor . |
| 10 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 11 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |
| 12 | If she were to climb up the hillock and semaphore with her flags the signals would be clearly outlined against the sky . |
| 13 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 14 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 15 | Of course , if we were to add up the term in every market/island in the economy we would have the answer zero — the markets with below-average demand cancel out those with above-average demand . |
| 16 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 17 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 18 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
| 19 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
| 20 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 21 | If we were to wind up the POWs fund and pay out the money once and for all to all POWs that we could find , we could run into severe problems in the next 10 to 15 years as these chaps get very old and need help even more . |
| 22 | The task of the Conservatives was to kill off the Liberals as a credible third alternative and then project the Conservative Party as offering a dynamic alternative to socialism . |
| 23 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 24 | Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " . |
| 25 | True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates . |
| 26 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 27 | Mr Ashwell said : ‘ The strategy was to wait out the recession , working short-time as necessary , in order to avoid major closures or redundancies . |
| 28 | In general the effect of the Commission 's inflated purchasing ability was to drive up the price of land in the borders . |
| 29 | The new Elizabethan age was to drive out the age of austerity . |
| 30 | ‘ The idea was to pass on the information from generation to generation , so children traditionally played a very important part , ’ said a spokeswoman for the Open Spaces Society . |