Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy would need Merymose 's help if he were to proceed in that direction . |
| 2 | In parliament , opposition party tactics were to capitalize on popular discontent with government economic policy by opposing specific measures , such as price increases , on the grounds that they were either inopportune or part of a generally faulty government economic strategy . |
| 3 | Clerical subventions to Edward I did not end here , but in future they were to issue from papal taxation . |
| 4 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 5 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 6 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If we were to go for full indexation , ’ said Jacek Kuron , the Labour Minister , ‘ there would be a mountain of money on the market leading to enormous price increases , with all the dangers that implies , especially for the poor . ’ |
| 8 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 9 | Officially the aims of the FMI were to promote in each department an organization in which managers at all levels would have : |
| 10 | The horse was to stay at Dunure and the men were to continue as joint owners . |
| 11 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 12 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 13 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 14 | In preparation for the reform the government had on Jan. 8 signed with representatives of the trade unions and employers ' organizations a six-month agreement " on preserving social peace " , whereby salaries were to increase by 270 leva ( US$90 ) and pensions by 182 leva a month . |
| 15 | Apart from these five officials , the other members of the political executive committee were to work in that body alongside their regular jobs . |
| 16 | If you were to work in this sector , you would be using your knowledge of company law to contribute to the success of your employer 's business . |
| 17 | If these matters were to pass into European competence in the way that the Liberal Democrats want , there would be an inevitable weakening of our controls and our frontier controls , which I am not prepared to accept . |
| 18 | We need to know for certain that if a person were to suffer in this way , the care will be there for them . |
| 19 | Juries saw no problem deciding whom they were to despatch from this world : let similar bodies decide who is to come into it . |
| 20 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 21 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 22 | These were overtaken by the Government 's plans to deregulate the British securities market , announced in 1983 , which were to lead to Big Bang . |
| 23 | Even if the number of households were to be suddenly increased , if , for example , all households consisting of more than one family were to split into single-family households , there would apparently still be a crude surplus of dwellings . |
| 24 | So also the french Radicals in the Fourth Republic were to splinter in all directions , participating in governments of both left and right . |
| 25 | Supplies were to consist of four water bottles each , three pounds of dates and a few glucose sweets . |
| 26 | These 30 gunboats were to sail in three divisions , at the head and on the flanks of the flotilla , which in addition would have enjoyed the escort of the eight gun-sloops of the [ French ] royal navy stationed between Havre and St Malo and a few privateers from there and Cherbourg . |
| 27 | A star that is 1.4 times heavier than our Sun has a Schwarzschild radius of only 2 km , and if such a star were to shrink to this size it would attain a mean density of , far beyond the density of nuclei . |
| 28 | What if she were to look in earlier editions ? |
| 29 | Oh , she knew well enough that if he were to walk through that door now , she would not entertain him ; her pride would not let her . |
| 30 | Suppose , for example , that a person were to walk behind another person who suffered from a physical deformity ( such as a limp ) imitating it , for the amusement of his friends . |