Example sentences of "[pron] were to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 2 | Invalided home with malaria in 1917 , her war experiences no doubt contributed to her indifferent health and drink problem , which were to be factors in the weakness of the BF before her death in 1935 . |
| 3 | The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a tremendous time in British deaf history , not just because of the events that took place and the deeds that were done , but also because of the men of remarkable ability and calibre who were to be giants amongst deaf , and hearing , people . |
| 4 | Before the Russian campaign , an event no one could reasonably foresee , those who were to be afrancesados held it ‘ morally impossible ’ that the French would be defeated . |
| 5 | The memo continues by stating that if the group who were to be part of the first squadron returned by road , they would waste too much time and should therefore be flown back to collect the new vehicles and supplies needed at Kufra . |
| 6 | The utility of science was indeed everywhere urged , just as the utility of classics was urged for those who were to be legislators , justices of the peace or district officers in the colonies . |
| 7 | Tom proposed that two of these should be used as studs , or servers ; there were five women who were to be brood mares for the plantation . |
| 8 | That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators . |
| 9 | At the local level there were to be branch juvenile exchanges and wherever possible branch care committees , and the duties of both corresponded to those of their London counterparts . |
| 10 | Under the plan there were to be changes in public finance policy ; budget deficits were to be limited to 10 per cent of total revenue ; government bonds were to be issued on the Muscat securities market to replace dependence on foreign borrowing ; the state general reserve fund was to be strengthened by a transfer of oil revenues ; a contingency fund was to be created to " cope with any international or domestic variables " ; and privatization of selected assets was to go ahead . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard there were to be fireworks , ’ Sean said . |
| 12 | On one side of the animal there were to be letters and a number which would identify the revenue district , sub-division and village of the animal . |
| 13 | By 1970 there were to be education departments in seven polytechnics in England and one in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | If there were to be nightmares , she could not control that ; but she would not waste her waking time frightening herself with a terror which was past . |
| 15 | There were to be increases in civil service wages and in minimum salary levels . |
| 16 | There were to be stalls , Guide and Brownie plays , competitions , a Brownie magic pool , fancy-dress parades and various other exciting things . |
| 17 | There were to be tax incentives for foreign investors . |
| 18 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 19 | They were to be friends , not lovers , she had made up her mind to that . |
| 20 | Blake realized that they were to be part of some evil black magic ceremony . |
| 21 | The Branch supported the running costs for this special day when they were to be hosts at Storrington . |
| 22 | The shirts were presented for the occasion by Buchan — and they were to be Arsenal 's downfall . |
| 23 | The disciples were told , before , ten days before they received the Holy Spirit that they were to be witnesses unto him . |