Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 2 | If these predictions were not to agree with observation , we could conclude that the universe is not in the no-boundary state . |
| 3 | A new German willingness to compromise on farm subsidies , however , emerged on Oct. 9 , and by Oct. 14 the GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel was able to tell the IMF/World Bank meeting in Bangkok that there were real prospects of concluding the Uruguay Round by end-year , a deadline he had presented as crucial if the whole process were not to end in failure . |
| 4 | Direct English military intervention was now necessary if the duchy were not to collapse into chaos . |
| 5 | Nationalism , yes , but not narrow : what Burke meant by ‘ the little platoon ’ , and a modern writer in small being beautiful , for the greater the overall unit ( and the Common Market was then looming ) , the greater the necessity for autonomy within that unit , if those being governed were still to feel in touch with those governing . |
| 6 | All the slight injuries happened at roundabouts on Northgate , Bondgate , Parkgate and North Road Mr Graham Hamilton , of Darlington Freewheelers , said car drivers were often to blame for bike accidents and called for new measures to raise awareness . |
| 7 | His ambitions were n't to do with television , however , we discovered . |
| 8 | specifically told you from yesterday but you just , I said I 'm sorry but you did n't , you did not say that you were n't to go to lunch |
| 9 | Its impact upon the Church was considerable — especially perhaps in England ; its conclusions were chiefly to do with discipline , and its provision requiring annual confession and Communion , remains today . |
| 10 | The 44ft ( 13.4m ) yacht belongs to the charter company International Ocean Ventures and her nine crew were there to learn about ocean cruising — the hard way . |
| 11 | Just as they were about to explode with rage the head of the agency appeared . |
| 12 | I thought that they were about to come to fruition . |
| 13 | Most important of all was the fact that he was devoted to imperial service ; thus his role as chancellor and Barbarossa 's role as emperor were seldom to come into conflict . |
| 14 | It was all to do with instinct , unsullied intelligence and an innate ability to discount the higher promptings of reason . |
| 15 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 16 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 17 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 18 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 19 | Emancipation was not to arrive without conflict and growing recognition of that truth stimulated a more radical strain in antislavery which took the form of the demand for immediate emancipation . |
| 20 | As Derrida ( 1978b , p. 234 ) noted , Artaudian theatre was not to refer to life or represent life but instead to be life . |
| 21 | The Guidelines issued by SCOTVEC to panel members explained that the main purpose of a validation event was not to scrutinise in detail the documentation but rather to use the information provided to enable an informed discussion about the proposal to take place . |
| 22 | Unresolved , I clung to the nub of " I " , perhaps sensing that I needed " I " if was ever to hurtle to freedom . |
| 23 | In England the custom was still to rely on pew rents and on subscriptions being paid directly to the chapel . |
| 24 | This was more to do with window dressing and the government 's need to be seen to be doing something , rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problems . |
| 25 | Sadly this was not the case , and Ashley was later to die at home in South Africa . |
| 26 | They were equating ( and as Saunders points out this was later to lead to confusion ) Mead 's concern with the relations between self and society , with these relations as they were being constructed in specific geographical contexts such as Chicago or one of Chicago 's zones . |
| 27 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 28 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 29 | Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities . |
| 30 | Iran was also to co-operate on oil exploration and refining with Turkmenistan , whose offshore oil extraction in the Caspian sea was suffering disruption because of shortages of hitherto centrally supplied materials . |