Example sentences of "[was/were] to [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affirmative evidence rebutting that implication would , I think , be needed if it were to be contended that paragraph ( b ) had not been satisfied . |
| 2 | The Marshal had arrived in time , as he had promised , to see Cipolla delivered to the court and taken upstairs , chained between two other prisoners whose appeals were to be heard that morning . |
| 3 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 4 | If they were to be paid this sum the doctor should in return guarantee to keep the premises open at certain convenient hours . |
| 5 | When it was announced that the orders were to be considered this week , the instruments were not in the hands of our clerk and our counsel . |
| 6 | The plan for 1988 was that the discount rate was to be fixed each month at 1 per cent above the equivalent annual rate of increase in industrial prices in the previous month . |
| 7 | It was to be expected that resistance would begin here too . |
| 8 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 9 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |