Example sentences of "were [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 2 | Action : If the user were to proceed to the module entry phase , Y DCs would be required for modules in package P. This number of DCs exceeds the LIFESPAN maximum . |
| 3 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 4 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that the recently privatized Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan , a development finance organization , were to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by an Islamic court banning bank interest [ see p. 38683-84 ] . |
| 5 | It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall . |
| 6 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 7 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 8 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 9 | They 'd come up to Hampstead to have coffee and we were to go to the Everyman , but the queue was too long . |
| 10 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 11 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 12 | Following further argument in Rome , it was decided that episcopal elections were to fall to the convents of Coventry and Lichfield by turn . |
| 13 | Sources suggest that if Moon , who is currently considering his position , were to indicate to the BMC that he had not fully understood the consequences of taking part , then a compromise could be worked out . |
| 14 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 15 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 16 | Largely due to Bernard , they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court . |
| 17 | By the optimistic view of the 1972 White Paper , they were to increase to an average of 6,000 full-time students each by 1981 , making 180,000 students in all . |
| 18 | The short-cuts provided in weapon development were to lead to a paring of independence , stunting of British research and development capacity , and a strengthening of the anchor cables holding Britain in her position as an offshore island of the United States at a time when closer relations with Europe were becoming more compelling . |
| 19 | These raised marine deposits focus attention on the problems that might occur if climatic change were to lead to a global rise in sea level . |
| 20 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 21 | If the weight of the assessment detail were to lead to an understandable desire for simplification , there is another awful danger awaiting the child . |
| 22 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 23 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 24 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 25 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 26 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 27 | Design and execution throughout are of the highest quality ; but while the artist of west and south is an untroubled archaic , the other is in the van of those whose innovations were to lead to the classical revolution . |
| 28 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 29 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 30 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |