Example sentences of "were [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |
| 2 | Whatever the causes of construction delays , they were to remain a persistent and seemingly insoluble problem , not only for the electricity supply industry but for a wide range of other British industries embarking on such large capital projects for decades thereafter . |
| 3 | And if self aware role modelling in medicine were to include a declared abstention from all the quiet words , phone calls , and fixings of the present highly selective mechanisms of patronage then the expectations of medical students and junior doctors , especially women and those from ethnic minorities , could be transformed , perhaps within only a generation or two . |
| 4 | Thirteenth-century inquests were to see a substantial increase in this percentage . |
| 5 | The last three decades of the nineteenth century in Britain were to see a similar move on the part of the working class , desirous of experiencing the benefit of sea air and sea water , the chance of amusement and relaxation from their work , or just a change of scene from the grim tenements and back-to-back houses in which they lived , and the mills and factories in which they toiled . |
| 6 | If you were to compare a typical Irish or British magazine of today with its counterpart of say , thirty years ago , one of the most overwhelmingly obvious differences would be in the quality of the photographic material now being used . |
| 7 | Erm and , and very enjoyable days they were , but erm I think if I were to plan a big party , or an anniversary or something like that , and I 'd hope those would be jolly enjoyable days too . |
| 8 | If you were to try a new carbon zinc battery on one of these testers , and then an alkaline one , in both cases the needle would bang hard over . |
| 9 | At the same time as this another organisation was being formed , The Peoples Education Movement , ( P.E.M. ) the aims of which , although suitably vague , were to provide a non-partisan platform from which Dr.Williams could continue his lectures and build up his support . |
| 10 | Of seminal significance , one quarter of these were to provide a new tenure group for British housing : the local authority council house . |
| 11 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 12 | In the early hours of June 4 ( the day on which miners were to launch a mass hunger strike in Tirana ) it was announced that the government would resign , and a new Prime Minister nominated by the ruling Party of Labour ( PLA ) would replace Nano and would form an apolitical administration . |
| 13 | The goals were to establish a New World Order which would prepare the way for the New World ‘ messiah ’ , the Lord Maitreya . |
| 14 | On the same day as Miyazawa unveiled the changes , Tsutomu Hata — Hayashi 's predecessor as Finance Minister — and a former LDP secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , announced that they were to establish a new faction . |
| 15 | Farm animals were brought into the woods and parks to provide food if Paris were to suffer a prolonged siege . |
| 16 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 17 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 18 | By an order dated 30 March 1992 Waite J. granted the local authority 's application under section 100(3) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to J. , an infant for whom the local authority shared parental responsibility pursuant to a care order made under the Act of 1989 , if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 19 | Under these circumstances it would not be medically appropriate to intervene with intensive therapeutic measures such as artificial ventilation if [ J. ] were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 20 | ‘ it would not be medically appropriate to intervene with intensive therapeutic measures such as artificial ventilation if [ J. ] were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 21 | It would undoubtedly be of great benefit to future scholars working in this field if the College were to create a central repository of classified material on a sector of education of which it is , after all , a not insignificant part . |
| 22 | Grain prices were expected to triple , and workers were to receive a temporary cash supplement in place of their grain ration at low fixed prices . |
| 23 | American courts were to exercise a special vigilance to protect foreign litigants from abusive discovery , for example demands for excessive numbers of depositions or documents involving high transportation costs and capable of being used as a device to secure a settlement of the case . |
| 24 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 25 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 26 | The ambitions of the northern nobility were to play a crucial role in national politics at the end of the century . |
| 27 | It also brought European immigrants , who were to play a crucial role in the introduction of Marxist ideas to Latin America , flooding into these countries , where newly built ports and railways were facilitating the spread of new political theories . |
| 28 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 29 | That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs . |
| 30 | The political and ideological ferment of the interwar period , when the ideological and cultural were fused , created the historical conditions in which intellectuals , writers and artists were no longer distanced from the social process and were to play a significant role in national and international events . |