Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 2 | Yet the limits of his moral perception were not to be enlarged . |
| 3 | Even if that figure were now to be drastically reduced orthodox interpretations of the fossil evidence together with orthodox evolutionary theory would require that the last generalized man/ape , the " missing link " of the early Darwinian imagination , must have died out an exceedingly long time ago . |
| 4 | The trading lobby were not to be fobbed off with talk like that . |
| 5 | In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions . |
| 6 | Physics , still seen as experimental rather than mathematical , geology and mineralogy were also to be included ; and questions requiring confirmation , or more attention , were to be noted . |
| 7 | If production and exchange were henceforth to be determined by those who produce and consume , what functions would their former controllers then perform ? |
| 8 | There is also the question of your sister 's reputation if her part in this , er … concealment were ever to be made public . |
| 9 | The profits of war were not to be found only in France : a grateful king rewarded his commanders with grants at home , and the wounds of 1341 seem to have been healed by success in war . |
| 10 | Stressing that recent moves towards political reform were not to be construed as Western-style democracy , Saddam Hussein warned on Sept. 16 that anyone pursuing Western models " would not be allowed … to take any post in leadership " . |
| 11 | If the lead were ever to be sold to radiation detector manufacturers it would raise more than the £24000 it has cost to salvage the hull . |
| 12 | In later law , however , a testator would have had no need to concern himself with this , since a rescript of Severus and Caracalla introduced the rule that , failing evidence to the contrary , dispositions charged on the heir were also to be understood to be payable by a substitute . |
| 13 | Except in Cornwall , the fortunate few who enjoyed a measure of affluence were chiefly to be found in towns where lucrative guild appointments were available . |
| 14 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 15 | But if the resources of husband and wife were not to be aggregated , and each had a right to claim benefit independently , the Commission would be paying allowances to almost all wives who are unable to work or have the care of children regardless of the husband 's income . |
| 16 | Men of Commando were originally to be parachute troops , but the RAF had even greater difficulty in finding planes than the Royal Navy had in finding craft . |
| 17 | Christianity was a matter of churchgoing , of soldiering on and trying to do one 's best , and of believing in the existence of God and the historical life and death of Jesus ( even if his deity and his resurrection were not to be taken too seriously ) . |
| 18 | Hibs started the game only one point better off than the ailing home side , and they , too , needed to smarten up their ideas if the last quarter of the season were not to be fraught with danger . |
| 19 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 20 | After some time one became aware that members of a quite different clan were also to be found scattered in little clusters throughout the open-plan living area . |
| 21 | None of those who sniped at his film career were ever to be so lasciviously tempted . |
| 22 | Eight other soldiers of lower rank were also to be court-martialled on criminal charges related to the massacre . |
| 23 | Powerful and famous gentlemen became regular visitors to the house — including , I remember , figures such as Lord Daniels , Professor Maynard Keynes , and Mr H. G. Wells , the renowned author , as well as others who , because they came ‘ off the record ’ , I should not name here — and they and his lordship were often to be found locked in discussion for hours on end . |
| 24 | If a Labour Government were ever to be tried , he declared , ‘ it could hardly be tried under safer conditions . ’ |
| 25 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 26 | He had been interested in tramps since childhood — ' I love a public road' ; he had read Crabbe 's description of a workhouse at school and had been shocked by the confinement of the mentally ill ‘ inasmuch as idiots and lunatics among the humbler classes of society were not to be found in Workhouses — in the parts of the North where I was brought up , — but were mostly at large ’ . |
| 27 | There was also an attempt to ensure full and free participation in committee hearings by all members and restraints were imposed on the use of proxy votes by chairmen ; in addition , all votes in committee and on the floor were now to be recorded and open to public scrutiny . |
| 28 | Then , great kindness and great love were only to be expected and accepted . |
| 29 | Came a point where the headaches and the rasping voice were not to be bought off for love nor money . |
| 30 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |