Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] were [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mines were dangerous , the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor . |
| 2 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 3 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 4 | The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners . |
| 5 | The dicta were not to be followed . |
| 6 | The sunglasses were not to be blamed . |
| 7 | The miners were originally to be moved on 8 January 1990 . |
| 8 | Though appointed by the member governments , the commissioners were not to be representatives of national interests . |
| 9 | Although the right to strike had been established , some of the judges were not to be so easily defeated . |
| 10 | The events of 1972 finally persuaded the leaders of organized labour ( and the great mass of trade union members ) that the judges were not to be trusted . |
| 11 | He said it correctly suspecting that the Conservatives were about to be pitched back into opposition by Lord Aberdeen 's coalition of Peelites , Whigs and Liberals . |
| 12 | On such mighty systems as these the stations were clearly to be places of great importance . |
| 13 | For the time being , the dogs were still to be kept separate at night , when left at home alone , or unsupervised . |
| 14 | Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon . |
| 15 | However , it was made clear that the assessments were not to be age-related . |
| 16 | The court said that because the articles showed that the auditors were not to be called in until the parties showed they were in disagreement , the auditors were to act as arbitrators . |
| 17 | The arguments were not to be put in an insulting or irritating way , but calmly and with great moderation . |
| 18 | The Bagots were nowhere to be seen . |
| 19 | The results were not to be entirely bad , as we shall see in the next section . |
| 20 | The police were not to be informed of any of these arrangements or to be involved in the payoff in any way . |
| 21 | The children were then to be given clues to help them solve the mysteries and they were to tell the Pink Panther ( who was not privy to this information ) who had committed which crime . |
| 22 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The old Welsh laws , dating from the middle of the tenth century , make it clear that the oxen were not to be used in the afternoon ; and as Seebohm points out a cyvar ( or co-ploughing , where different people contributed different members of the ox-team and the plough itself ) ended at noon . |
| 25 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 26 | Both sides were making hopeful noises about the hostages , although Britain 's insistence that whatever improvements in relations there might be , the hostages were not to be seen as a direct part of that process , seemed rather contradictory . |
| 27 | Outside in The Cheese Market at the corner of Castle Street and Blue Boar Row , traders who paid no tolls were always to be found on the same spot each Market Day . |