Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though all these exploits were undertaken with schoolboy high spirits , no one lost sight of the fact that these swashbuckling deeds of derring-do were a dress rehearsal for the serious havoc the men were to wreak in France . |
| 2 | If England , with four or five new faces in the side , were to lose to South Africa , then the blow to morale would be considerable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 5 | The children were to remain where they were — wherever that was the parents were to remain in ignorance , with the children still isolated . |
| 6 | The privatization programme envisaged that 25 per cent of state enterprises would be sold by the end of 1992 ; about 25 categories of assets were to remain in state ownership , however , including natural resources and strategic enterprises . |
| 7 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 8 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 9 | Those orders were to remain in force until the next hearing on 31 January 1992 . |
| 10 | While the charters were being drawn up , the existing relations between landlords and serfs were to remain in place . |
| 11 | Secondary analyses were to include within group comparisons of arrhythmias , oxygen saturation , pulse rate , and blood pressure between the pre , per , and postgastroscopy periods , using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test for the frequecy of arrhythmias , and the Students t test for the remaining normally distributed data . |
| 12 | We were to drive to Paris the long way , via cups of steaming chocolat on the quayside in Honfleur and a saucisson and baguette picnic on the back seat outside the Palace of Versailles : some motorway , some back roads , some Routes Nationales and then the Peripherique and Paris . |
| 13 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 14 | They replied , ‘ Oh , but we were to go for drinks with Derek tonight . ’ |
| 15 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 16 | We were to go on foot so as not to disturb the tranquillity . |
| 17 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 18 | Jellicoe and Zirnheld were to go to El Daba , and the sixth group led by Captains Warr and Schott would aim for Sidi Barrani . |
| 19 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course — but if you were to go to Luiza and pretend to be friends again … you could tell her you did n't like me any more . ’ |
| 21 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 22 | Two or three 'phone calls later and it was all arranged — Jane I were to go to Skomer . |
| 23 | Er , woman that he were to go to Mr . |
| 24 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 25 | We were to go by sea . |
| 26 | Jack and Warnie were to go by motorcycle — Daudel as Warnie called it — with Warnie in the saddle and Jack in a low-slung sidecar . |
| 27 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 28 | If you were to report to Ernest and Julio Gallo that their pickers seem to have missed an awful lot of grapes , you probably would n't get much of a reaction . |
| 29 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 30 | If the recent pattern of population change observed in many developing countries were to continue without modification then , in a few decades , there would be some impossibly large populations . |