Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nor , despite the arbitrary results capable of being produced by the requirement of illegality , is the law necessarily unwise in displaying this reluctance to extend liability , for if the requirement of illegality were abandoned a much greater burden would have to be placed upon the defence of justification if we were to avoid the intolerable situation that A was liable to C whenever and however he knowingly brought about a breach of a contract between B and C. |
| 32 | Working harder for constituents individually would mean more surgeries , not to be easily provided if they were to cover the large constituencies necessitated by the STV . |
| 33 | In short order I was to fly with ‘ Deemy ’ on Friday morning and we were to cover the 4,300 miles from Fairbanks to Irkutsk via Yakutsk in one day — about the same flying distance as from New York to London . |
| 34 | The French were to win the final set by a combination of factors . |
| 35 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 36 | GORDON Richards would n't be in the least surprised if On The Other Hand were to win the National . |
| 37 | If , therefore , we were to equate the public interest , so far as relevant to the operation of business , with the maximisation of the wealth of society as a whole , it would follow that in order to serve the public interest companies should be required to pursue the goal of profit maximisation : maximum profitability should be the sole criterion that guides management discretion and the exercise by companies of social decision-making power . |
| 38 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 39 | The proposal was made by the civil engineering firm Rendel Palmer and Tritton who , 30 years later were to play the key role in the Thames Barrier project . |
| 40 | What the remit conspicuously ignores is the possibility that a change , as radical as the intended extension of industrial democracy , but in the essential character of trade unions might also be a need if they were to play the new part written for them . |
| 41 | Little came of this but in the next decade , the 1790s , the French armies were to use the large-scale production of hydrogen by decomposition to some effect when balloons first found military use . |
| 42 | OMG president , Chris Stone , said Software AG would certainly be able to bring a product to market much more quickly if it were to use the OMG-compliant HD-DOMS for the task . |
| 43 | Later French Huguenots were to use the Dutch embassy in Paris in much the same way . |
| 44 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 45 | Certainly , if one were to divide the primary school day up into " skills and frills " sections , as it often is by teachers and others , then it is highly likely that project work would come in the " frills " section . |
| 46 | If governments were to manage the new capitalism then economic planning was clearly of the essence . |
| 47 | Together they were to form the essential background to the most important British variant of fascism . |
| 48 | Both the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were to form the essential ingredients of the professional consensus which emerged in the years following the publication of the General Theory known as the neo-classical synthesis . |
| 49 | If the Tories were to form the next government then Chris Patten would be found a seat , if necessary . |
| 50 | Below them came the jurisdiction of the thegns , apparently already organised by the early eleventh century in the districts that , as Norman lordships , were to form the later rapes . |
| 51 | Suleyman 's own medreses , built round his mosque in Istanbul and completed by 966/1559 , were to form the top rungs in the fully elaborated hierarchy of medreses , though they seem not to have achieved exclusive claim to this pre-eminence immediately . |
| 52 | How on earth would it affect his negotiating position if he were to give the net farm income figures on the impact of his own proposals set out in ’ Our Farming Future ’ ? |
| 53 | If Florian or Nicky were to draw the obvious conclusion from the fact that she and Luke were returning to her apartment together , becoming aware of the affair Luke had wanted to keep secret , now when it was ironically no longer an affair — |
| 54 | The aims of this new coalition were to press the British government into acting more forcefully against terrorism and to force a return to something like the old majority rule at Stormont . |
| 55 | ‘ If they were to persuade the greater number of those living in Northern Ireland to agree with them , then Her Majesty 's Government would present no obstacle , ’ said Sir Patrick . |
| 56 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 57 | Erm , but er , it is a very long book , and er , it , it , it is a masterpiece , and if you were to read The Golden Bough , or any part of it , or any other work of Frazer 's for that matter , you would immediately be reminded of Totem and Taboo , because Frazer 's method is comparative . |
| 58 | And if I think you were to read the first two pages of his autobiography , there 's a dedicatory verse on another page , I ca n't help feeling that you will agree with me that , in a , there 's something embarrassing about them . |
| 59 | For someone who has never had a panic attack it may be difficult to fully empathize with the client , but it may help if you were to consider the following scenario . |
| 60 | If we were to believe the local paper reports then we would have to accept that The Smiths were attacked by hordes of outraged loyalists , which was far from the truth . |