Example sentences of "these [noun pl] were [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 2 | In America , they made six hundred prints of the film and decided these bits were supposed to be in black-and-white and they could fix it ! |
| 3 | These issues were due to be investigated at a second trial , to start on Jan. 14 , 1991 , when the senior financiers Roger Seeling , David Mayhew and Lord Spens were to stand trial for accepting the money . |
| 4 | These men were grateful to be working at all , fearful that one foot out of place would end the cash flow that eventually found its way into some remote village on the other side of the Straits of Hormuz . |
| 5 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |