Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures . |
| 2 | Even if , for the sake of argument , one were to take at face value the Lucas hypothesis that an unanticipated increase in the money supply raises the notional supply of labour , what incentive do employers have to take on any extra labour ? |
| 3 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 4 | Mr Willis said the next stage was to look at design development and engineering performance . |
| 5 | William Cobbett poured scorn on ‘ Pitt 's ditch ’ , asking if a 30-foot-wide canal was to keep at bay an army which had crossed the Rhine and the Danube . |