Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 2 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 3 | It would indeed be the exception if the pertinent social collectivities were exclusively formed on economic class lines ( even though this may be the plan of certain political forces ) , as it would be if such social collectivities were to appear on the ‘ political stage ’ as political forces in their own right . |
| 4 | Before the post of Commissioner was established , it was considered in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that trade union members needed to be ‘ exceptionally determined and sometimes courageous ’ if they were to embark on the process of claiming and enforcing the full rights which the law gave to them . |
| 5 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 6 | The conservatives had a third victory the following day when the fathers were to vote on the Decree on Ecumenism . |
| 7 | the end cha , the end of the chapter said that if parents were to re-take on the role of educating and disciplining children within the home |
| 8 | Though later liberals were to divide on the issues of the election or selection of local government officials ( with radicals in favour of popular election and conservatives for appointment of mayors and councils by the ministry ) , all liberals , in spite of lip-service to the ideal of the medieval municipality , accepted two propositions : that the Cortes , as ‘ sole representative of the sovereign nation ’ , must enforce a uniform and centralized system and that , within this system , the municipalities were ‘ subaltern corporations ’ . |
| 9 | President Chadli Benjedid , at a March 13 press conference , said that there was no question of dissolving parliament at present , but that this could be considered if a consensus were to emerge on the matter ; legislative elections were due in 1992 but could be brought forward if necessary , and Chadli accepted the possibility of the ruling National Liberation Front ( Front de libération nationale — FLN ) finding itself in a minority after such elections . |
| 10 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 11 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 12 | Courier 's final messages from Higueras were to relax on the court and play smart . |
| 13 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 14 | WHEN Derry and Fran Dunnett visited Inchcolm Abbey one day last summer they remarked to each other how lucky the abbey 's custodians were to live on the island . |
| 15 | The 1979 local Assemblies throughout the country debated Libya 's relations with Malta ; they were to advise on the question whether Libya should give economic aid to her ally . |
| 16 | Mr Runciman said he had prepared a draft statement on the profits warning and the company 's corporate finance advisers , Hoare Govett , were to advise on the wording and timing of the statement . |
| 17 | In many ways , Sussex escaped the wholesale rearrangements of life and customs which the Norse invasions were to have on the northern shires . |
| 18 | They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard . |
| 19 | The remaining five Fulmars which had led the Hurricanes in were to stay on the island , although the original plan called for them to fly on to Maleme ( Crete ) , where they were to assist the Fulmars of 805 Squadron in the defence of that island . |
| 20 | The difficulty was to agree on the proportions of atoms in particular compounds . |
| 21 | What she really wanted was to go on the pill , but as her doctor was a close family friend , she could n't face asking him . |
| 22 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 23 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 24 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 25 | Paddy Mayne was to concentrate on the road between Agheila and Bouerat , while B Squadron was to move to the west , raiding up as far as Tripoli . |
| 26 | The object was to concentrate on the use of the tool as opposed to the user 's task . |
| 27 | Implicitly dismissing fears of " peaceful evolution " ( capitalist infiltration ) , Jiang said that the important thing was to concentrate on the domestic situation . |
| 28 | The point of a general damnatio was to impose on the heir a general obligation to pay the legacies left . |
| 29 | By the time she was ten years old the nearest she came to having a bath was to stand on the bathmat and sponge herself down . |
| 30 | To advance further into the wood was to trample on the colour blue . |