Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 2 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 4 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 5 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 6 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 7 | To no avail : my resolution was never called for debate and another , that if the SNP were to approach us with a view to talks ( an unlikely event after the Pollok by-election ) we would not close the door , was passed by a narrow majority . |
| 8 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 9 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 10 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 11 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 12 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 13 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 14 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 15 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 16 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 17 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 18 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 19 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 20 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 21 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 22 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 23 | Following his experience of the 1880s , Wilson 's initial approach to the problem of foreign seamen was to regard them as a danger to his union , both in providing cheap labour and in posing a threat to its policy of restricting the manning of ships to its own members . |
| 24 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 25 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 26 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 27 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |
| 28 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 29 | My reaction — rather cowardly — was to shove it in a drawer and try to forget it . |
| 30 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |