Example sentences of "[noun pl] that were to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While little attempt was made to alter the character of the patchwork of health services available in the inter war period , all the parties that were to be involved in their transformation in the 1940s were beginning to examine the weaknesses of the existing provision and to formulate alternatives . |
| 2 | Having chosen the four townships that were to be the location of the snowball samples , it remained to select the zero stage of the samples , one individual from each township with whom to start the referral chains . |
| 3 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 4 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 5 | The crowd went home quietly via the 300 pubs that were to be found in the East End of Glasgow in the good old days . |
| 6 | It was not only food imports that were to be substituted in Franco 's plan . |
| 7 | The ‘ simpliciter ’ collection is simple indeed — four parts , the highest carrying the melody — but the ‘ fugue-wise ’ ones treat the successive phrases of the hymn in motet style on lines that were to be followed throughout the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 8 | Thus , it began to incorporate the principles of determinism and the differentiation of offenders from non-offenders that were to be the later hallmarks of positivist criminology . |
| 9 | The contributions that were to be offered with the study of process may be surveyed from the viewpoint of soil science and the biogeographer , from that of the climatologist and the geomorphologist and then from the field of hydrology which to some extent provided a new focus of interest for physical geographers and one that proffered a link between at least the geomorphic and climatic aspects of physical environment . |
| 10 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 11 | Trains of animals , each carrying 5 or 6 hundredweight , crossed the wilder stretches of the country or plodded along the narrow paved causeways that were to be found on both sides of the Pennines and as far south as Derbyshire . |
| 12 | To furnish the interior authentically , the owner sought out period items — panelled doors , chimney pieces , etc — from local buildings that were to be demolished and installed them in appropriate positions . |
| 13 | Then there was Tiare , named after Polynesia 's whitest flower , who had inherited a secret hoard of paintings from her artist father , paintings that were to be a turning point in the history of the island . |
| 14 | The next few weeks were busy one for all the Pack and their mothers , who baked and stitched and sewed , and listened to recitations and lines from plays that were to be performed by the Brownies , and answered their questions about this , that and the other , and tried to put their sudden doubts and fears at rest . |
| 15 | In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime . |
| 16 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 17 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 18 | Bold , reckless , keen in business , not disinclined for a brush with the pirates that were to be found on many a coast as yet , making money fast , they used to have a general " rendezvous " in the bay for the purposes of trade and dissipation . |
| 19 | He fell over and clouted his head against one of the heavy silvered cast-iron radiators that were to be found throughout the school . |
| 20 | Had they , after nineteen-eighteen , learnt the lessons that were to be learnt , then we might have been spared Hitler and the Second World War . |
| 21 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 22 | By the late neolithic , Knossian house plans had become quite elaborate , with square fireplaces set against a wall or in the centre of the room , and with neighbouring dwellings juxtaposed to make a cellular layout familiar in Early Minoan villages such as Fournou Korifi ( Myrtos ) and the temples that were to be built in the Middle Minoan . |
| 23 | He contemplated the cattle trucks that were to be his and the platoon 's home until further notice . |