Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if no more water were to flow into the aquifer , water would flow out , like the air from the tyre , until the pressure was no longer enough to lift the water above ground level . |
| 2 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 3 | We were to go into the mountains and spend one night in tents before making our rendezvous the next day . |
| 4 | And how many officers were to go into the flat ? |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 7 | Imagine the consequences if its entire contents were to escape into the atmosphere . |
| 8 | Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy . |
| 9 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 10 | It was not until 1876 that she started the meetings for mothers which were to develop into the Mothers ' Union . |
| 11 | Just as the drainers had previously arrived as outsiders on the wetland commons , so the conservationists were to wade into the wetland issue , often importing their perspectives from outside . |
| 12 | Such views were to move into the mainstream of Labour politics only when liberal capitalism collapsed under the strains of the First World War . |
| 13 | In this climate , various groups of individuals who had been involved in the conferences and activities of the preceding few years were to move into the drawing up of detailed proposals for curriculum development and the search for funds with which to implement these . [ … ] |
| 14 | I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL . |
| 15 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 16 | His plan for that was to go into the restaurant car park and allow enough time for the other car to clear the fuel service area , then fill his own tank and give chase . |
| 17 | The proposed closure was confirmed just twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 18 | The closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 19 | The announcement was confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal said the pit was to go into the review procedure . |
| 20 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 21 | If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction , it could only be in a narrower channel . |
| 22 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 23 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 24 | After Jesus feeds the Five Thousand the crowd respond by declaring , ‘ Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world ! ’ |
| 25 | All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century . |
| 26 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 27 | Bill always used to say , I remember talking to Bill one night at er , at a conference , and his ambition was to walk into every depot at nine o'clock on a morning , and not see a parcel . |
| 28 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 29 | And my reaction to this fear , my way of combating it , was to escape into a world of no fear , a world where there were complete men , good-looking , strong , active , a world of erotic fearlessness where the whole man had free rein , the whole man whom I was convinced I would not or could not become . |
| 30 | The actual mission was to storm into the harbour area , eliminate the garrison and destroy anything they found there . |