Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The horse was to stay at Dunure and the men were to continue as joint owners . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 7 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 8 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So also the french Radicals in the Fourth Republic were to splinter in all directions , participating in governments of both left and right . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What if she were to look in earlier editions ? |
| 13 | Another regulation stipulated that government and party officials were to resign from commercial posts by the end of March 1989 , although this remained hedged about with exceptions . |
| 14 | Could you have a refund of contributions if you were to leave within two years ? |
| 15 | She was sending Auntie Lou the money for their rail tickets and they were to leave in two weeks ’ time . |
| 16 | A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens . |
| 17 | Innocent 's aims during the imperial schism ( which , it must be remembered , that he had in no way engendered ) were to decide between rival candidates — to arbitrate between them as equal powers , not to judge . |
| 18 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 19 | They extended their warnings to children of divorce , claiming that such children would also experience great disruption in their lives if they were to live in two houses , that is , in the case of joint custody between the two former spouses . |
| 20 | If the external cladding were to fail under some situations , the position of any persons using high lift equipment outside the building could be extremely dangerous . |
| 21 | They were to drop at various locations north of Château-Chinon . |
| 22 | Finally , if the manager were to get into financial difficulties , and his or her creditors required payment , it should be clear that no money in this account belongs to the manager , and it can not be used to settle the manager 's personal debts . |
| 23 | Apart from this reference , and despite all the subsequent exchanges between AFHQ and subordinate commands on both Cossacks and Yugoslavs which were to follow in succeeding days , AFHQ was not to refer to Robertson 's order again . |
| 24 | As events were to prove in subsequent years though , it was anything but exhausted . |
| 25 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 26 | As I understand it , the development was to proceed in two phases . |
| 27 | The nearest the Government came to bringing the judges and magistrates ‘ within the disciplines of efficiency and cost effectiveness ’ ( Guardian 1.10.90 ) , was to circulate to all courts details of the full costs of their sentencing decisions . |
| 28 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 29 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 30 | Although Central Asia was to fall to Russian arms — and soon after to the railway station — in the 1870s , it was not until the turn of the century that Siberia and the Far East bowed to the onward march of the station , here rigidly classified into a whole range of categories of importance . |