Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] were to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever emigres were to be welcomed back , as is suddenly the case in Czechoslovakia , he could have an important role in economic planning . |
| 2 | The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide . |
| 3 | Hence dropouts were to be accepted as a fact of life and the curriculum designed particularly with the needs of higher levels in mind . |
| 4 | Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership . |
| 5 | Sixty years later others were to be accused of making this same oversight . |
| 6 | Now councils were to be targeted individually , rather than as a group . |