Example sentences of "were [to-vb] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 2 | The main aims of the Report , which was issued in March 1978 , were to increase the accountability and co ordination of advanced further education and to permit more forward planning by the polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 3 | It was in cities such as Rome , Venice , Florence and Verona that the Renaissance started — the re-awakening of the arts , new directions in painting and architecture — movements which were to span the continents and leave a legacy of culture unequalled anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 5 | The commoners ' representative , Dr Roy Swayne , believes it would be advantageous to accept the compromise deal , with its cash offer , because if the ministry ever were to sell the airfield when the Americans had gone , the 64 households concerned would still have some say in what happened . |
| 6 | He asked if it would be all right if the Southampton police were to sell the bike and give the proceeds to one of their charities , and I readily agreed . |
| 7 | JUST SUPPOSE a creature from outer space were to visit the Earth and a group of world dignitaries assembled to greet him . |
| 8 | ‘ We were to view the corpse because we suspected it was the body of an imposter . |
| 9 | The Masters were to hear the suits and decide which could go forward . |
| 10 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 11 | In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership . |
| 12 | His orders were to apply the methods that had proved so successful in Vienna to mop up the surviving Jewish influence at the heart of the Reich . |
| 13 | Suppose he were to encounter the Ryemarks or even Robin Tatian ? |
| 14 | At first Wolff 's duties were to manage the yard and provide engineering skills ; but later , through his links with the Jewish community in Britain and Hamburg , he was to bring a large amount of business to the yard . |
| 15 | Indeed , if Portsmouth and Sunderland were to defy the odds and emerge victorious from today 's matches against Liverpool and Norwich , it would be the first time in the 120-year history of the tournament that two teams from the Second Division contested the final . |
| 16 | The mathematician Aristarchus suggested that the problem could be simplified if all the planets , including Earth , were to orbit the Sun but , after much controversy , his argument was lost . |
| 17 | His principal objectives as expressed in the 1980 campaign , were to reduce the size and role of the government , to revive the economy and to strengthen the nation 's defences . |
| 18 | If the courts were to develop the idea that all errors of law are jurisdictional , defined the word law in a purely analytical way so that it embraced any , or almost any application of a statutory term and substituted judgment on the meaning of that term , then a prospective applicant would be clear that the courts would intervene using that standard . |
| 19 | They also vividly illustrate the incompetence component because the results , by their own analysis , were to upset the others and make it less likely that their views would prevail . |
| 20 | Robson 's aims in Justice and Administrative Law were to examine the extent and nature of administrative adjudication and to provide an intellectual foundation for the development of a system of public law . |
| 21 | Cuban refugees , trained by the Americans , were to invade the island and set off a spontaneous rising of the Cuban people against Castro . |
| 22 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 23 | They were to follow the track that skirted the south of the swampy depression and were then to take a path to the right which was marked by a great stone shaped like the head of a horse . |
| 24 | The subdeacon 's duties were to prepare the bread and wine and the vessels for the mass and to chant the Epistle . |