Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | According to a survey carried out by the Bureau of National Affairs in 1986 , 36% of the responding organisations currently had a smoking policy , 2% were to implement one during 1986 and another 21% had such a policy under consideration [ 7 ] . |
| 3 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 4 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
| 5 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 6 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 7 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 8 | If they do recommend an envoy , and if President Clinton were to appoint someone like former President Jimmy Carter , the effect would be only to make the problem worse . |
| 9 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 10 | There is the question of professional indemnity which I shall return to shortly because I think it might be helpful if the minister were to say something about that . |
| 11 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 12 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 13 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 14 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 15 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 16 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 17 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 18 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 19 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 20 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 21 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 22 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 23 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 24 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 25 | This , made worse by the war of 1756–63 and catastrophic by that of 1778–83 , was to destroy it in 1787–89 . |
| 26 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 27 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 28 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 29 | The recommendation for the West was to divide it into three regions : South-west ( Dumfries and Galloway ) ; Central — based on the Falkirk-Stirling area ; and the West or Clyde Valley ( Strathclyde ) . |
| 30 | This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy . |