Example sentences of "were to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades . |
| 2 | Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’ |
| 3 | If fundholders were to be a lever for change in the reorganised National Health Service there is evidence from this study that they are achieving this objective . |
| 4 | The new charters were to be a staging post . |
| 5 | If moreover there were to be a case of parthenogenesis , the resulting foetus would be female , for there would be no ‘ Y ’ chromosome present ! |
| 6 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 7 | If there were to be a reduction in the mark-up , then this would further reinforce the effect . |
| 8 | Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent . |
| 9 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 10 | There were to be a lot of evacuations in the coming years , by land , sea and air , each accompanied by promises from departing residents that their absence would only be temporary . |
| 11 | The next few decades were to be a period of accelerating changes for the mills of the area as Hicks , who in 1806 became Lord of the Manor , systematically extended his empire . |
| 12 | In this respect , as in others , the 1290s were to be a period of crisis and change which was to make an impact on Anglo-French relations . |
| 13 | If there were to be a failure in maintaining this conquest , the ‘ livelihood ’ of these people would be at stake . |
| 14 | The details of William Joyce 's birth were to be a matter of life and death to him during the autumn of 1945 . |
| 15 | If there were to be a programme of comparable generosity to the new democracies , it would be necessary to reduce some category of expenditure within the industrial countries . |
| 16 | But the shadows that were deepening over Europe were reaching out to " change everything " in lives across the world , and the Burrows family were to be no exception . |
| 17 | There were to be no Cup ties . |
| 18 | When the French dukes made peace among themselves at Auxerre three months later , the only losers were to be the English . |
| 19 | But all this re-creation of the old ways was also the creation of the Völkisch : the racially and culturally pure Aryans who were to be the master race destined to rule the world . |
| 20 | Having chosen the four townships that were to be the location of the snowball samples , it remained to select the zero stage of the samples , one individual from each township with whom to start the referral chains . |
| 21 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 22 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 23 | If such were to be the case , the court would be confronted with a difference of medical opinion , very similar to the case in In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1421 . |
| 24 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 25 | Er , they would be helped , I think , by this and er , I think if that were to be the case , then I 'd be wholeheartedly behind it . |
| 26 | Er similarly we feel it would be more appropriate if that were to be the case er perhaps should point out there are other schemes where we have shown a series of of lines stars on the key diagram , it 's not just on the Harrogate . |
| 27 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 28 | In the eighteenth century the professions , which were to be the core of the nineteenth-century middle class , brought some social esteem but little economic power . |
| 29 | The splendidly ornate style and the wealth of carvings in the soft-tinted stone were to be the subject of a poem . |
| 30 | The administration 's fiscal 1991 and fiscal 1992 deficit totals both excluded the costs of US military deployment and operations in the Gulf , which were to be the subject of a separate submission to Congress later in the month . |