Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen , Sarah and Kate were to be the bridesmaids , and Kate produced a bolt of pale pink taffeta for their dresses telling her mother that it came from a fire damage sale . |
| 2 | When the French dukes made peace among themselves at Auxerre three months later , the only losers were to be the English . |
| 3 | But all this re-creation of the old ways was also the creation of the Völkisch : the racially and culturally pure Aryans who were to be the master race destined to rule the world . |
| 4 | Cash limits were initially fixed to reflect volume decisions , but once set they , not the volume decisions , were to be the determinants of expenditure . |
| 5 | New arrivals on the street scene were to be the stars of tomorrow and the mink-lined coffins that were the grand old studios were about to disappear for ever . |
| 6 | Having chosen the four townships that were to be the location of the snowball samples , it remained to select the zero stage of the samples , one individual from each township with whom to start the referral chains . |
| 7 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 8 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 9 | If such were to be the case , the court would be confronted with a difference of medical opinion , very similar to the case in In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1421 . |
| 10 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 11 | Er , they would be helped , I think , by this and er , I think if that were to be the case , then I 'd be wholeheartedly behind it . |
| 12 | Er similarly we feel it would be more appropriate if that were to be the case er perhaps should point out there are other schemes where we have shown a series of of lines stars on the key diagram , it 's not just on the Harrogate . |
| 13 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 14 | In the eighteenth century the professions , which were to be the core of the nineteenth-century middle class , brought some social esteem but little economic power . |
| 15 | The splendidly ornate style and the wealth of carvings in the soft-tinted stone were to be the subject of a poem . |
| 16 | The administration 's fiscal 1991 and fiscal 1992 deficit totals both excluded the costs of US military deployment and operations in the Gulf , which were to be the subject of a separate submission to Congress later in the month . |
| 17 | Thomas was to be retained by the duke , and all the servants , tenants and inhabitants of the Scrope estates were to be the duke 's men . |
| 18 | Thomas was to be retained by the duke , and all the servants , tenants and inhabitants of the Scrope estates were to be the duke 's men . |
| 19 | The other was to ask who were to be the leaders of armies , and by what criteria they might claim to lead . |
| 20 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 21 | They were to be the pall-bearers . |
| 22 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 23 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 24 | Outstanding agenda items at the reconvened Rome talks were to be the integration of the two forces , a date for general elections , and the withdrawal of the estimated 7,000 Zimbabwean troops guarding the Beira and Limpopo transport corridors to landlocked central Africa . |
| 25 | Centralisation and nationalisation were to be the means to full employmcnt . |
| 26 | If that were to be the outcome , it would mean putting the clock back not twelve years , but a hundred years . |
| 27 | Some of these institutions were to be the outcome of local amalgamations — including colleges of art . |
| 28 | They were to be the basis of a new natural philosophy , and were advocated both by practising experimenters and by theoreticians . |
| 29 | While the idea of the two-stage revolution : liberation first , communism later : could be described as primitive Leninism , it may be seen that Ho 's approach to Communism was also two-track : town and country : not necessarily in that order : and his Revolutionary Youth League also functioned on two levels : the mass nationalist party and the inner core of Tam Tam Xa hotheads who were to be the nucleus of a future communist party . |
| 30 | Within each school , PNP coordinators were to be the LEA 's main agent for interpreting , explaining and implementing the goals of the programme . |