Example sentences of "were [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 2 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 3 | Clearly if a wine bar were to find that the catering side of the business brought more trade and wished to convert part of the bar area into a restaurant , this would not be a material change and would not require planning permission . |
| 4 | Fifteen minutes were to pass before the bell rang a second time , succeeded by that awful rattle . |
| 5 | Two decades were to pass before the prison building programme reached a scale that was to become significant in terms of public expenditure . |
| 6 | Not all were as moderate as Somerset 's , with its stress on equality ; the title of one of the others , Nicholas Bodrugan 's Epitome of the title that the Kynges Maiestie of Englande hath to the souereigntie of Scotland , shows how willing the English were to assume that the Scots could be persuaded to accept a union of unequal partners . |
| 7 | If we were to hold that the division of a final hearing into parts deprived the parties of an unfettered right of appeal , we should be placing an indirect fetter upon the ability of the court to order split trials . |
| 8 | This brought the Poles to the Lothians , Fife , Perthshire and Angus , the areas where many were to stay when the threat of invasion had lifted . |
| 9 | It would be churlish if I or anyone else were to say that the area should not receive whatever funds are needed to redevelop it . |
| 10 | If we were to say that the topic of this discourse fragment is ‘ the meaning of the expression ‘ smoke the houses ’ ' , we could not claim to have said very much of analytic interest . |
| 11 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 12 | So , if the holder of a bill of exchange were suing the acceptor , and the acceptor were to complain that the holder had treated him hardly , or that the bill ought never to have been circulated , and the holder were to say , Now , if you will not make any more complaints , I will not sue you . |
| 13 | Many incidents of a similarly charming nature were to follow as the years went by , without any diminution in the public fascination with this spinster lady from a remote Yorkshire dale dressed in complex layers of well-laundered rags . |
| 14 | A further twenty-seven years were to elapse before the railway reached its ultimate terminus at the Kyle of Lochalsh . |