Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 2 | The old rule was that requisitions on title were dealt with after contracts had been exchanged , and that prior to that time the questions were to be of a practical nature , as per the form of preliminary enquiries . |
| 3 | These were to be of a loose fit above the knee and slightly tapered below to follow ‘ the shape of the leg from above the calf to the top of the shoe . ’ |
| 4 | The clubhouse plans ( of which no copy exists ) were discussed , and were revised to include a scullery ; the usual offices ( presumably the toilets ) were to be in a detached , rather than integral , building . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later . |
| 6 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 7 | It was like being among the dead men in an enormous empty green cathedral . |
| 8 | It was to be about the –wicked stepmother ’ in Snow White , something from her point of view , redress some of the balance . |
| 9 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
| 10 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 11 | Far worse than this was a decree issued by the British Treasury to the effect that all money paid out was to be at the old pre-invasion rate of 72 lire to the pound ; the rate in 1945 was actually 1760 lire to the pound . |
| 12 | It was to be on a new site and act as a combined station for suburban and express services . |
| 13 | ‘ But qualified that it was to be on an impersonal basis only . ’ |
| 14 | The post-mortem examination had been attended by the infirmary doctors as well as by several other medical gentlemen and the inquest was to be on the following day . |
| 15 | But it meant that an important part of Belinda 's work was to be on the alert for this kind of upset and do everything she could to minimise its effect . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office was to be on the western part of the site designated for the offices , and the War Department on the eastern part . |
| 17 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 18 | And our Colin was to be off t' fair , and that , so , me dad sort of went on to our John and pushed our Colin out a little bit . |
| 19 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 20 | It was to be in a small town called Bad Schwarzendom . ’ |
| 21 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 22 | The intended use of the eventual instrument was to be in a standard growth cabinet or growth room . |
| 23 | Our trip , in August 1968 , was to be in the utmost secrecy and we were to fly to Johannesburg under the names of Mr Aitken and Mr Goodman . |
| 24 | This is so irrespective of whether the contract had a fixed future date for delivery or whether delivery was to be within a reasonable length of time . |