Example sentences of "he [was/were] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before this interrogation , he had reluctantly agreed to allow his wife to conduct it , being unable to argue against her contention that if he were to perform that duty , his questioning would inevitably be biased in the girl 's favour . |
| 2 | If he were to ask many people in the north-east where they come from , they would say ’ the north-east ’ . |
| 3 | We have also made it absolutely clear that we will ensure that our deterrent is effective and absolutely credible , and that it puts real fear into any potential aggressor about the damage that he could suffer if he were to attack this country . |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he were to convert all loans under the social fund to grants , as has been promised by the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , the cost would be about £130 million and would greatly prejudice the operation of the social fund as it now works ? |
| 5 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
| 6 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 7 | He was to die four years later . |
| 8 | He was to teach Sixth Form Mathematics with great distinction from 1921 until his own retirement . |
| 9 | He was also closely associated with the work of George Devine and Tony Richardson at the Royal Court Theatre where he was to design 17 productions , starting with Look Back in Anger in 1956 . |
| 10 | He was to sire ten UK champions , a record only equalled by the Elsden 's other great stud dog , Ch. |
| 11 | He was to hold this position for twenty-nine years , combining it with the Treasurership from 1923 until his retirement in 1935 . |
| 12 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 13 | He was willing to submit these terms to arbitrators to vary as they thought fit , but only on condition that he was to retain full power and jurisdiction . |
| 14 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 15 | Navarre lost his castles and was lucky not to lose his life ; he was to attempt further intrigues with the English , but his double-dealing made the English wary of him . |
| 16 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 17 | In 1873 he married Janet Marshall ( only daughter of John Macfie of Edinburgh ) by whom he was to have five daughters , but , as the Indian climate suited neither her nor their first child , he returned to Scotland on leave and resigned in 1879 . |
| 18 | These were mere fragments of the complex arrangements which he had made in order to secure his throne , and they were entirely necessary to Henry if he was to have sufficient support among those families — perilously few and divided in their allegiance — who alone could ensure his survival as king of England . |
| 19 | He was n't prepared to do anything else there no ar and he was he was to have these plant hire , you know these two , when when his old man used to work us us in the quarry , well this was working up there as well , he had lads working on the plant hire for him . |
| 20 | Maximilian was to marry twice , and by his second wife he was to have ten children . |
| 21 | It was a promise he was to keep many times . |
| 22 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 23 | Caesar will never know how fortunate he was to survive this episode ; Mr Richards could well have attempted to administer him a Mars bar instead . |
| 24 | Fear debilitated , and he would need all his wits and ability at his command , if he was to survive this encounter . |
| 25 | But it was on his return to the West Coast that he was to suffer most discomfiture . |
| 26 | I think that he 'd reached a stage in his life where he was to become less community minded and more geared toward the fulfilment of his own career . ’ |
| 27 | He was to get twenty pounds a week . |
| 28 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 29 | Though he was to achieve some distinction as a watercolour artist , exhibiting at several galleries , he was to become better known through his voluntary work for the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( R.A.D.D. ) for which he was honorary secretary for many years . |
| 30 | He was to play 58 Tests in all , taking 259 wickets at just under 21 , a lower average than any of the top West Indian bowlers except Marshall . |