Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] were [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an unwritten rule in the department that teaching sessions were not to be interrupted by phone calls , especially not private ones . |
| 2 | Children , too , were rather expected to play , and to play quietly , behind the house no balls or tin trumpets were ever to be left on the gravel sweep . |
| 3 | By 1955 export prices were down to world levels , a development which must have accelerated the scrapping of old plant . |
| 4 | The foreign intelligence operations were now to be conducted by a new and as yet unnamed state agency separate from the KGB ( although Primakov was also named first deputy chair of the KGB ) , and would concentrate on national security and on monitoring the international drugs trade and terrorism . |
| 5 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 6 | There were peoples in the empire — the Masai , pre-eminently , were one , and the Bedouin Arabs were shortly to be another — who seemed instinctively to possess the right combination of self-respect and pragmatic acceptance of the facts of British power . |
| 7 | Under the Bretton Woods system , exchange rates were only to be changed in the face of fundamental disequilibrium , and GATT was designed to restrict the temptation to raise tariffs . |
| 8 | Degree courses were also to be provided in some Area Colleges , to ensure a fair geographical distribution of opportunities . |
| 9 | But it is Jonny who is the driving force , the black leather jacket may have gone , the cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen yesterday , but the earring is still in place and so is the intensity which stunned Cambridge two years ago . |
| 10 | Forest dwellers were not to be compelled to attend the swanimotes , nor those who lived outside the forest to attend the Forest Eyre , unless they were accused of an offence , or were sureties for someone else . |
| 11 | Some Pennine lead flues were up to two miles long . |
| 12 | The next day things were back to normal . |
| 13 | However , the three DHSS manuals were not to be a permanent part of the system so only one copy of each was to be supplied per bureau . |
| 14 | Some , contrary to the spirit of the Act of 1834 , supplemented wages and gave outdoor relief to the unemployed , recognizing that on occasion jobs were not to be found ; others offered only the workhouse . |
| 15 | Real estate taxes , inheritance and gift taxes and environment taxes were also to be introduced in place of the previous system of " profits taxes " — levied on state-owned industry — and turnover taxes . |
| 16 | Adult hadrosaurs were up to 13 metres in length and weighed from 4 to 6 tons , about the same as a large elephant . |
| 17 | After 1932 it was not until 1937 that three million working days were again to be lost in industrial disputes , compared with 162 million days in 1926 and an average of 24 million days per year between 1918 and 1926 . |
| 18 | If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion , then a tactical retreat was necessary . |
| 19 | As the subject assessment proceeded it also became clear that the Subject Assessors were there to be supportive — not to look for mistakes , but to help us ’ . |
| 20 | Appalled by mounting losses , the Fabius government of the day called for a change of course : ministers were to keep hands off state industries were not to be cushions against unemployment , and profit would be the test of performance . |
| 21 | Funding and subsidy schemes were only to be allowed provided they were open to all artists in the Community . |
| 22 | The Masters event in Eastbourne brought together the top 24 from the circuit ( determined by how many circuit points they had accumulated ) as competition intensified and world computer points were not to be contested . |
| 23 | Concession to operate coal mines , oil fields , federal highways and three railway lines were also to be auctioned . |
| 24 | Most of the increased expenditure of DM20,100 million under the supplementary budget was to cover social insurance payments and economic restructuring in East Germany ( unification costs were also to be covered by the German Unity Fund — see p. 37467 ) . |
| 25 | Police telephones were not to be used for private calls , said her mother . |
| 26 | My stomach muscles were up to it , but I did n't want to lose any more teeth . |
| 27 | Duck numbers were down to 503 in eight species with tufted duck heading the list at 313 , twice the figure for last year 's May count , but there were only 46 shelduck whereas last year we found 121 . |
| 28 | By the tenth century slaves were rarely to be found in France or Germany ; they were a minority , though still a substantial minority , in England ; they were still common in southern Europe ( see pp. 84–6 ) . |
| 29 | I threaded my way between the various broken churches , towers and columns to the entrance-exhibition where posters announced that fibreglass imitations of the stone carvings were soon to be set up outside . |
| 30 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |