Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 3 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 4 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 5 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 6 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 7 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |
| 8 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 9 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
| 10 | This was very self-conscious imitation , as is proved by the peculiarities of some epigrams which celebrate the family 's achievements : a surviving pair commemorates the Persian victories in the strange order Salamis-Marathon ; it was perhaps Kimon himself who thus sought to remain Athenians , in verse , of his father 's great battle , just as painters were to remind them of it by their Marathon in the Painted Stoa built in the middle of the fifth century : Oinoe , a deme close to Marathon , was the title of one of the subsidiary hoplite engagements depicted . |
| 11 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 12 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 13 | Where the programme is most revealing is in its assumption that the proper way of handling young refugees was to treat them as if they were entrants to a minor public school . |
| 14 | The subjection of seamen to Marine Boards in the north-east , where crimping was less in evidence than in London or Liverpool , was to treat them like " a parcel of Mexican slaves " . |
| 15 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 16 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 17 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 18 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 19 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 20 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |
| 21 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 22 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 23 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 24 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 25 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 26 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 27 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 28 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 29 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 30 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |