Example sentences of "were [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 2 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 3 | By the tenth century slaves were rarely to be found in France or Germany ; they were a minority , though still a substantial minority , in England ; they were still common in southern Europe ( see pp. 84–6 ) . |
| 4 | Do you remember how you were on to me to write to him ? |
| 5 | ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’ |
| 6 | The police thought they were on to something when , following an anonymous ‘ phone call , they went to a butcher 's shop . |
| 7 | ‘ Luckily we were on to their plan and switched off the power before we moved in . ’ |
| 8 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 9 | Clearly these insects were on to something . |
| 10 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |
| 11 | Now they were on to stones . |
| 12 | This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important . |
| 13 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 14 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 15 | No , the Pigs were on to something about some holiday fund that disappeared — some scheme for sending kids in Homes on a holiday that people in a pub had contributed to — fraud , they called it . |
| 16 | But Ianthe seemed not to know how to answer Sophia 's remark and soon they were on to another topic — the strangers in the parish and whether it was likely that they would come to church . |
| 17 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 18 | We were on to Dead Lib again . |
| 19 | ‘ They were on to it quickly . |
| 20 | They would know they were on to something . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately for him , almost all the staff were on to him . |
| 22 | Burroughs and Gysin practised their own form of sorcery using tape recorders , with results impressive enough to convince them they were on to something . |
| 23 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 24 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 25 | Owners of lands in the forests were henceforth to be allowed to bring them into cultivation and to make mills , fishponds and other constructions outside the covert , to agist their pigs in their woods at their pleasure , and to have all the eyries and honey in them . |
| 26 | If production and exchange were henceforth to be determined by those who produce and consume , what functions would their former controllers then perform ? |
| 27 | Juries were to deal with serious criminal cases , elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases , and trials were henceforth to be held in public . |
| 28 | After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville . |
| 29 | The President and the Assembly of the Republic ( formerly the National Assembly ) were henceforth to be elected directly by universal suffrage and secret ballot . |
| 30 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |