Example sentences of "they [was/were] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Abigail drove the blue WRVS van , Miss Poraway sat beside her with a list of the names and addresses they were to visit that morning , the diabetics marked with a ‘ D ’ , as were the corresponding dinners in the metal hot-boxes . |
| 2 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 3 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 4 | If they were to talk all night , they would still be no nearer to viewing life from a similar standpoint . |
| 5 | Those with 16 or 17 passes but meeting all other requirements , and who could not keep within the ‘ 21 rule ’ if they were to take additional modules are awarded a degree without honours . |
| 6 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 7 | It was necessary therefore to originate our national network shows early in the evening if they were to reach other parts of the country before their respective peak listening hours had passed into bedtimes . |
| 8 | They were to call each other ‘ father ’ and ‘ son ’ and be friends with one sole interruption until Richard 's death . |
| 9 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 10 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
| 11 | There are undoubtedly people who will still say , ‘ I do n't want my little Johnny to get food poisoning and that 's the end of the story , ’ — although unfortunately , they would be misled if they were to choose irradiated food for that reason . ’ |
| 12 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 13 | Erm you said when we left er where we left off last time , about erm about people and how delighted the they were to get second hand clothing . |
| 14 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 15 | The last day of November 1845 was set by the Board of Trade as the day on which all new railway plans had to be lodged if they were to stand any hope of a parliamentary hearing . |
| 16 | Oxford had a lot to do if they were to stand any chance of taking on Italian opposition . |
| 17 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 18 | They were to gain invaluable assistance from the likes of Fenner Brockway , Jenny Lee , George Orwell , and the I.L.P. leader — James Maxton . |
| 19 | In due course , after the ties that bound nobles and peasants had been finally severed , they were to become elective Justices of the Peace with jurisdiction over all estates of the realm . |
| 20 | Delamont ( 1980 ) in her case-study of a comprehensive school discovered that ‘ the more teachers tried to make the lesson material relevant and immediate to the pupils , the more likely they were to make sexist assumptions and remarks ’ ( p. 54 ) . |
| 21 | The obvious solution was to sell the leases to the operators and for them to decide what investment was required if they were to attract new business . |
| 22 | If we interpret its principles in their widest sense , they were to dominate academic thinking about crime and its treatment until the 1960s . |
| 23 | They were to have one son . |
| 24 | They were to have one son , Daniel , born in 1768 , and a daughter , Frances . |
| 25 | They were to have one son . |
| 26 | They were to have six children ( five sons and a daughter ) : Jean Baptiste ( b 1732 ) , Antoine Jacques ( b 1733 ) , François ( b 1735 ) , Eugène Menin ( b 1737 ) , Jacques Louis ( b 1740 ) and Marie Geneviève . |
| 27 | They were to have eight children , of whom six died in extreme infancy and only two sons , Frederick Arthur and Leslie , survived . |
| 28 | Many do not remain sufficiently long as temporary workers or with any one agency to be entitled to any rights even if they were to have dependent employee status . |
| 29 | In her opinion it was necessary if they were to have any hope of advancement . |
| 30 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |