Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 2 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 3 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 4 | He warned the jury that they were not there to judge anybody , but to decide how the unfortunate Mr Oliver had died , and if there was sufficient evidence to bring criminal proceedings against anybody . |
| 5 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 6 | They were also both to become heroes of the counter-culture movement . |
| 7 | To make sure they were all right to eat them |
| 8 | They were actually there to obscure the original price of 80p … no wonder The Oatcake fanzine sold well at 30p . |
| 9 | He was a funeral ‘ director ’ rather than a furnisher , and it was to this practice that a number of top-rank funeral furnishers working in London looked — Ballard , Dowbiggin & Holland , J.D. Field , A. France & Son , J. Kenyon , Leverton 's and John Nodes — though they were never quite to match his mastery . |
| 10 | The Fourth Lateran Council was the first oecumenical council of the medieval period where the two orders , clerical and lay , were summoned , but they were there essentially to witness declarations of the faith , not to treat . |
| 11 | The officer in charge of the militia refused to let his men take part in the eviction , saying they were there merely to prevent disorder . |
| 12 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 13 | Presumably they were only here to set the scene for the current convention , as nothing represented a period later than the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |