Example sentences of "[art] two [noun pl] were to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But who can doubt that , if the two races were to ‘ separate ’ , the blacks would be the poorer ? |
| 2 | The responsibilities of the two departments were to be as follows : the education authorities who operated a service under the 1910 Act had to confine themselves to ‘ interviewing , advising , registering and selecting juvenile applicants ’ , while the labour exchanges would ‘ register vacancies , place juveniles with employers and oversee their progress during the early years of employment ’ . |
| 3 | The Argentinian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mario Campora , was named as the new ambassador to the UK and visa restrictions between the two countries were to be abolished . |
| 4 | As in the ECSC , the two executives were to be supported and supplemented by a consultative committee representing the several national interest groups . |
| 5 | The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers . |
| 6 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |