Example sentences of "were [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures . |
| 2 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 3 | The children were to remain where they were — wherever that was the parents were to remain in ignorance , with the children still isolated . |
| 4 | The privatization programme envisaged that 25 per cent of state enterprises would be sold by the end of 1992 ; about 25 categories of assets were to remain in state ownership , however , including natural resources and strategic enterprises . |
| 5 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 6 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 7 | Those orders were to remain in force until the next hearing on 31 January 1992 . |
| 8 | While the charters were being drawn up , the existing relations between landlords and serfs were to remain in place . |
| 9 | Secondary analyses were to include within group comparisons of arrhythmias , oxygen saturation , pulse rate , and blood pressure between the pre , per , and postgastroscopy periods , using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test for the frequecy of arrhythmias , and the Students t test for the remaining normally distributed data . |
| 10 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 11 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 12 | We were to go on foot so as not to disturb the tranquillity . |
| 13 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 14 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 15 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 16 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 17 | We were to go by sea . |
| 18 | Jack and Warnie were to go by motorcycle — Daudel as Warnie called it — with Warnie in the saddle and Jack in a low-slung sidecar . |
| 19 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 20 | If the recent pattern of population change observed in many developing countries were to continue without modification then , in a few decades , there would be some impossibly large populations . |
| 21 | The region 's conservation officer , Jim Souness , said that new parts would be needed if the equipment were to fall into disrepair , making the possibility of someone taking it over even more remote . |
| 22 | The Heartbreakers were to fall from grace with violent rapidity towards the end of 1977 , only to re-emerge as cult heroes in 1984 . |
| 23 | And so , if Edouard were to fall in love , to marry , he 'd be equally as obsessional then . |
| 24 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 25 | If only Harry were to fall in love with her they could have a wonderful life together . |
| 26 | ‘ I do not kidnap young females , even for financial reward , and also , if you were to disappear without trace , it would be years , I suspect , before my mother had her home to herself . |
| 27 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 29 | The inflationary stimulus of the war saw the promotion of fifteen offices between 1793 and 1815 , but twenty-nine were to come into existence between 1815 and 1830 and fifty-six between 1830 and 1844 . |
| 30 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |