Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 2 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 3 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 4 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 5 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 6 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 7 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 8 | If it was raining , a handbell rung at the door indicated that we were to go straight to the classrooms . |
| 9 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 10 | If the relatively steep dips of some of the exposed reverse faults were to continue deep into the crust , the region to the south could legitimately be regarded as unprospective . |
| 11 | Charles the Cheesemonger 's major contribution to the history of his side of the family was to ensure that the name continued ; not in Frome , where Titfords were to disappear completely by the 1860s , but in London . |
| 12 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 13 | Sir if I could complete the er arithmetic , I think it would be helpful , if you were to look again at the single page note that was handed on this morning . |
| 14 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 15 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 16 | If they were to escape back through the trench they would have to move quickly ; any moment now the sepoys would have crossed the yard from the hospital and outflanked them . |
| 17 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 18 | It seemed as if her silence at last unnerved her father because he turned to speak to her just before they were to walk together down the long aisle . |
| 19 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note that the aspects of SSE which discriminated most strongly between respondents and non-respondents were to do specifically with the Oxfordshire scheme as it had operated in their school rather than with SSE as a general notion . |
| 21 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 22 | Northumberland failed to take her into his personal custody , but their exchanges of letters during her incarceration in Carlisle were to contribute largely to the disastrous Rising of the North in 1569 . |
| 23 | The mean age of a sample of thirty-four boys in this group who were to contribute greatly to the later stages of the research was 15 1 years . |
| 24 | They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories . |
| 25 | eh , the same number on four lines , but if were want to go out four people were to phone in at the one time |
| 26 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 27 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 28 | His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years . |
| 29 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 30 | The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody . |