Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 3 | If only Harry were to fall in love with her they could have a wonderful life together . |
| 4 | And so , if Edouard were to fall in love , to marry , he 'd be equally as obsessional then . |
| 5 | If , for instance , ICI were to buy into stock for use in later months a product whose price collapsed in the meantime , the loss could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds . |