Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1338 the northern clergy were to instruct their parishioners about the crucial need for , and inescapable burdens of , defence against the Scots , so that the ‘ pious exhortations ’ of the priests might induce support for a united struggle against the enemies of the realm . |
| 2 | The Pope hinted to the mission that much embarrassment could be avoided if the King were to arrange his divorce without consulting Rome . |
| 3 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 4 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 5 | In the intervening period 73,600 Royal Navy personnel , about 30,000 merchant seamen , and almost 6,000 members of RAF Coastal Command were to lose their lives , as did more than 29,000 crewmen from German submarines . |
| 6 | If these people were to lose their jobs , they would fill Murrayfield to overflowing ! |
| 7 | She feels there is a real shortage of teaching jobs and says if she were to lose her job tomorrow she would want to do something . |
| 8 | I 'm just thankful the pilots stayed where they were to miss our houses . |
| 9 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 10 | How the ravers were to find their way out of Chalk Farm and into their bedsits would also be a challenge worthy of the do-it-yourself times into which the metropolitans were moving . |
| 11 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 12 | I was only too aware of the possibility that if any guest were to find his stay at Darlington Hall less than comfortable , this might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness . |
| 13 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 14 | There was no more time for sight-seeing if I were to catch my train , but the helpful Matthews told me of martyr Sir Oliver Plunkett 's head , preserved in a church at Drogheda . |
| 15 | However , perhaps if I were to concentrate my efforts on finding an emergent path for your good self , I would be successful . |
| 16 | The whole convoy parked in the side streets near Peter Stirling 's flat where they were to meet their leader . |
| 17 | With wafer-thin profit margins , this meant he had to keep his planes to full capacity if he were to meet his debts , which he was never able to do . |
| 18 | She does not deny that she wished she possessed it but knows she would not be able to stop herself falling into evil if she were to accept his offer . |
| 19 | We were to discover what opportunities there were , and use them as fully as we could . |
| 20 | In the attempt to provide good influences , officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts : to become friends with the boys , to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes ; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith ; above all , they were told , never ‘ miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them ’ . |
| 21 | If James II were to recapture his throne , it would have to be by force , as the result of a successful foreign invasion , but William 's government proved more than a match , putting down the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland , and defeating the prospect of a French-backed invasion with victory at La Hogue in 1692 . |
| 22 | Shrewdly , in view of the trouble such ambitions were to cause her successors , the queen turned Bradley down . |
| 23 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 24 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 25 | If the bonnie banks of Scotland were to open their accounts to the world , there would be a run on the pound and some of the country 's most famous clubs would collapse with embarrassment . |
| 26 | If the police were to open their vaults on footballers it would make Hercule Poirot . |
| 27 | Members of the Darlington Association on Disability expressed concern about how members were to reach their headquarters at the Friends ' Meeting House in Skinnergate . |
| 28 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 29 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 30 | Indeed , if they were to announce their decision to desist , it would be an important confidence-building measure that could lead to others — for example , the suspension of the Arab boycott . |