Example sentences of "were [to-vb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The training we were to receive was later to help us teenagers when most of us enlisted into the services . |
| 2 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
| 3 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 4 | The expression of output in the form of performance indicators ( see chapter 10 ) , which were to have been quantitative wherever possible , has caused considerable problems . |
| 5 | LAST YEAR the Conservatives were telling us how clever they were to have been able to cut taxation and to increase public spending at one and the same time . |
| 6 | It had hoped that under 100 of its 360 staff would lose their jobs , hoped that many would stay in work as employees of Kontrax 's 15 dealers , which were wholly-owned but were to have been sold off as franchises under the scheme . |
| 7 | He had been badly damaged when the Zionists had sent their commando squad with explosives to La Seine-sur-Mer , close to the French port of Toulon , to destroy the two reactors that were to have been shipped to Tuwaithah 48 hours later . |
| 8 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 9 | Gold , platinum and palladium were to have been mined at the remote site in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Mowbray gave a deep sigh as if the words that were to follow were unpleasing to her . |
| 11 | It crept down the columns that the place we were to attack was a village called Neuve Chapelle . |