Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] were to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 2 | The Act empowered the Secretary of State to put a limit on the amount if in his opinion the amount proposed to be raised was ‘ excessive ’ according to principles he determined which were to be the same for all authorities falling within the same class . |
| 3 | He entered the room with the pop-eyed , lock-jawed expression of one who was expecting to hear a death-sentence from his commanding officer , but he cracked into smiles of various kinds when he heard we were to be his proteges . |
| 4 | ‘ I heard there were to be fireworks , ’ Sean said . |
| 5 | Though it grated on their code of hospitality , the island hosts then decided there were to be no more gifts of food or drink , no more counselling or mapping , no more lending of labour , or advice . |
| 6 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 7 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 8 | ’ They said we were to ahead of or time , ’ say a Saunderson . |
| 9 | He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . " |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I said there were to be no unaccompanied flights ? ’ she snaps . |
| 11 | You said they were to be brought as soon as they were drawn up . ’ |