Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the example given , if prices were to fall in the discount market , and the yield rise , then the process of arbitrage would ensure new rates in the parallel market , should market participants not immediately adjust prices ( which in fact they will ) . |
| 32 | ‘ For Mandelson 's Hartlepool opponents it must be rather as if George Bush were to retire from the White House and run for Mayor of Amarillo , ’ said yesterday 's Independent . ) |
| 33 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 34 | Sources suggest that if Moon , who is currently considering his position , were to indicate to the BMC that he had not fully understood the consequences of taking part , then a compromise could be worked out . |
| 35 | Largely due to Bernard , they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court . |
| 36 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 37 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 38 | Morel 's even-handed appeal to ‘ artisans ’ and ‘ industrialists , quickly gave way to the belief that ‘ if any radical changes were to come in the system of intercourse between states … the driving force must come from the organisations of labour . ’ |
| 39 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 40 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 41 | Actually , Ruby was considering how well publicized her intervention in the case would be if she were to work from the Post newsroom . |
| 42 | This is simply natural , it 's a fact , you both know that whatever happens , even if God and the Devil were to stand in the way , you will have what you want . |
| 43 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 44 | I should be in some embarrassment if my name were to appear in the newspapers , for instance . ’ |
| 45 | The airport brings major economic benefits to the North West as we were to discover with the help of our guide John Kirby . |
| 46 | This division of support had potentially serious consequences as it was commonly accepted that all four constituent groups had to be united behind a single candidate if the Democrats were to regain of the White House . |
| 47 | As well as the USA , Belgium , France , Italy , the Netherlands and the United Kingdom , were to participate in the operation — initially entitled " Poised Hammer " but now rechristened " Provide Comfort — II " . |
| 48 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 49 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 50 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 51 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 52 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 53 | Before the post of Commissioner was established , it was considered in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that trade union members needed to be ‘ exceptionally determined and sometimes courageous ’ if they were to embark on the process of claiming and enforcing the full rights which the law gave to them . |
| 54 | If Elves were to sail to the Isle today they would find the High Elf mages of old , caught like flies in amber , still chanting their ages-long spells to preserve the balance of the world . |
| 55 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 56 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 57 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 58 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 59 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 60 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |