Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As officers were to acknowledge in the formal consultation document on closure in 1986 , community mental health services were not all in place in the Riverside District , but the underlying objective of the strategy , to release resources to fund community service developments , had been achieved . |
| 2 | The duties of the CCC , which was to work ‘ in close touch ’ with the Central Juvenile Employment Exchange , were to arrange for the vocational guidance of prospective school-leavers and to liaise with exchange officials in registering juveniles and in selecting applicants for interviews . |
| 3 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that the recently privatized Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan , a development finance organization , were to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by an Islamic court banning bank interest [ see p. 38683-84 ] . |
| 4 | Mixed institutions , the greater part of which were used for other than hospital purposes , were to remain with the local authority and would not be taken into the National Health Service . |
| 5 | Under the treaty with the United Kingdom , the twenty-six counties which were to become the independent state were to remain within the British Empire with dominion status , and the British monarch was to remain head of state . |
| 6 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 7 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 8 | In July , McGovern , supported by Campbell Stephen , had openly stated the necessity of such a return if the ILP were to continue as a significant organization . |
| 9 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 10 | ‘ If the plutonium were to fall into the wrong hands the results could be catastrophic . |
| 11 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 12 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 13 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 14 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 15 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 16 | Such an objective involved establishing what , in practice , were to stand as the proper constituents of the new English , and their relation to each other . |
| 17 | The legend of El Cid began there , but nearly a thousand years were to pass before the true story of his life and deeds began to be known . |
| 18 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 19 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 20 | These raised marine deposits focus attention on the problems that might occur if climatic change were to lead to a global rise in sea level . |
| 21 | If the weight of the assessment detail were to lead to an understandable desire for simplification , there is another awful danger awaiting the child . |
| 22 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 23 | Design and execution throughout are of the highest quality ; but while the artist of west and south is an untroubled archaic , the other is in the van of those whose innovations were to lead to the classical revolution . |
| 24 | By the end of 1944 Morgenthau seemed persuaded that the task would be eased if Britain were to serve as a junior partner in pursuit of these objectives . |
| 25 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 26 | They were to depart from the Western Gate . |
| 27 | ‘ If we were to look at the constitutional situation we may have to look at the position of the Princess Royal . |
| 28 | Although the context of illegitimacy may be changing , in that relatively permanent cohabitation is essentially equivalent to formal marriage , if similar proportions of these women were to look towards the local authority sector in future , it would indicate a substantially increased need for public housing . |
| 29 | I could never replace you … never find your equal if I were to look until the very day I die . ’ |
| 30 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |