Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] were [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks . |
| 2 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 3 | England defender Pallister was then handed the responsibility of keeping United in continental competition but , just as they had failed in a penalty shoot-out against Videoton in the Cup Winners ' Cup in 1985 , so they were again to be engulfed in misery . |
| 4 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |
| 5 | If you were n't to be turned into a zombie , a walking automaton , in the absence of other night-people , incidents had to be manufactured . |
| 6 | However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts . |
| 7 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 8 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 9 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 10 | If they were ever to be revealed , then we would have a much more complete picture of Shostakovich the man . |
| 11 | Some of the regulations from Brussels would destroy jobs as surely as the policies of the Labour party would if they were ever to be followed . |
| 12 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 13 | This decision , if it were not to be entirely arbitrary , would presumably be based upon considerations of style or general policy . |
| 14 | They tended to face north and west when they should have faced south and east , because they were there to be looked at , not to be looked from , and the windows of the mansion faced in the contrary direction . |
| 15 | They were astonished when we said ‘ Yes ’ Everyone remembers the holiday chalets — ‘ our little houses ’ as they were soon to be called . |