Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] were to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other area of controversy was in the kitchen , where cupboards were to be installed by John Saunders , a friend in the business . |
| 2 | Although differences were to be found — especially comparing the arts and sciences — the highly creative were frequently described in similar terms as : sceptical , aloof , radical , self-sufficient , independent , bohemian , often introverted and usually more open to experience . |
| 3 | The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts . |
| 4 | If solutions were to be found they would be of a technological nature . |
| 5 | Section 2.1.4 details a proposed project for piloting the creation of an image database which could begin in 1992 , if funds were to be made available . |
| 6 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 7 | But as has been seen , if changes were to be brought about , they were to be initiated by making changes internally to NHS services . |
| 8 | But , the paramilitary leaders were in a less-privileged position and , if arrests were to be made , they were obvious targets . |
| 9 | Smith was of opinion that adequate protection could be given by keeping a mobile force ready , who , on warning of danger , could be swiftly moved to the danger area ; but , if police were to be billeted in the colliery , 70 would be sufficient . |
| 10 | This same Report said that the majority of submissions to it complained that resources were spread too thinly , but if grants were to be concentrated in fewer centres , this would doubtless lead to criticism in the other direction , and could force closure of some departments which fail to attract sufficient grants . |
| 11 | If services were to be provided on purely egalitarian terms , all people who might benefit from any given treatment would be able to do so . |
| 12 | If barristers were to be instructed to prepare written briefs , they would need to be remunerated fairly for the work and there would be a resulting rise in costs ( Evershed , 1953 ) . |
| 13 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 14 | About 1770 there was quite an elaborate proposal to create at Versailles another school for diplomats with thirty-six pupils , while others were to be given practical training by travel abroad or work , in preparation for careers as consuls , in the main French ports . |
| 15 | A new youth court was proposed to deal with the 14–16-year-old group-the largest group of juvenile offenders — whilst under-14-year-olds were to be dealt with increasingly by non-court procedures . |
| 16 | Alexander raised none of the questions which would have to be answered if emancipation were to take place : whether serfs were to be granted land as well as liberty , whether and how they were to pay for them , and how local government was to be conducted if the jurisdiction of serf-owners came to an end . |
| 17 | Stonehouse , also for Glasgow , was designated in 1972 , but after the building of the first houses , was aborted in 1976 : a vivid illustration of a change in priorities , for resources were to be channelled into the renewal of inner Glasgow ( the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal — GEAR — scheme ) . |
| 18 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 19 | Although these measures were not especially radical in themselves , the Act against pluralism did infringe ecclesiastical immunity from secular jurisdiction , as offenders were to be prosecuted in royal rather than ecclesiastical courts . |