Example sentences of "were [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 32 | I have discussed the impact that moves towards a Single Currency may have , especially if the Maastricht Treaty were to come into force . |
| 33 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 34 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 35 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 36 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 37 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 38 | The fusion of the Asian and European conflicts was a gamble which could only come off if a successful blitzkrieg were to lead to negotiation . |
| 39 | If , for instance , ICI were to buy into stock for use in later months a product whose price collapsed in the meantime , the loss could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 40 | These rules were to apply to property bequeathed unconditionally or else under a term ( dies ) . |
| 41 | As one who joined the Leader of the Opposition in voting against the Single European Act , before the right hon. Gentleman became a Euro-fanatic , may I appeal to my right hon. Friend to warn the voters about the huge dangers to the much-improved labour relations of Britain if they were to vote into power any Government who were prepared to pass over the power to wreck our trade union reforms by majority vote in Brussels ? |
| 42 | A referendum , in which Western Saharans were to vote for integration into Morocco or independence under Polisario , was still scheduled for Jan. 26 , 1992 . |
| 43 | Eurotunnel should now produce calculations showing what the effect would be if the Safety Authority were to insist on segregation . |
| 44 | If she were to insist on veal goulash , for example , all would be lost . |
| 45 | But I mean that would just be an argument about where they set the level that you no longer were to qualify for child benefit , but I mean , bu , you know , presuma , presumably er , th the point the man was was making that er , the child benefit goes equally |
| 46 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 47 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 48 | These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom . |
| 49 | Some were to die in jail . |
| 50 | The change would take effect at the end of his present term ( 1965 ) or before then , if he were to die in office . |
| 51 | The authorities also gave themselves the most important voice on the gentry committees which were to decide on land boundaries and the size of the peasants ' payments . |
| 52 | In the first-ever legal challenge to a space launch , a coalition of anti-nuclear groups charge that Galileo 's generators could rain radioactive waste all over eastern Florida if the shuttle were to explode during takeoff . |
| 53 | During that year a directive was issued by the Bishop of Carlisle to the vicar of Crosthwaite ; the 18 sworn men ; the churchwardens ; and a number of dignitaries , were to assemble in committee at Crosthwaite Church and elect 18 sidesmen , and new churchwardens for the ensuing year — these to take an appropriate oath office . |
| 54 | If they were to live in peace it was necessary , he said , that the Indians should have a country set apart for them and in that country they must stay . |
| 55 | The same wasted effort and security risk would apply if the UK importer in our example were to pay in sterling . |
| 56 | Most reformers admitted that entail was a social and political necessity if the nobility were to survive with decoro . |
| 57 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 58 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 59 | The colouring could pass through the shell into the egg , especially if the shell were to break during cooking . |
| 60 | His initial duties were to assist with fieldwork for the magnetic survey of India and by the 1908–9 field season he was in charge of operations in south-west India . |