Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured . |
| 2 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
| 3 | This must be a taste of how it was to be a Marine in armour , whose servo-suit responded to the motions of his body , magnifying these … |
| 4 | The most critical part of the whole job was planning exactly what needed to be done , how it was to be done and when . |
| 5 | We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done . |
| 6 | Cold water and washing soap , this was how it was to be . |
| 7 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 8 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 9 | This was not how it was to be . |
| 10 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
| 11 | He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea . |
| 12 | Should it be desired to alter this state of affairs , there would be many who would assert that the change could not be made without the consent of the part of the United Kingdom affected , however it were to be expressed . |
| 13 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 14 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 15 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 16 | The completed upholstery was finished at the point where it was to be fixed in the coach . |
| 17 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 18 | A decision to pipe crude oil from the B.P. Forties Field in the North Sea to a new terminal at Hound Point from where it was to be shipped outwards , raised doubts about safety of navigation in the River Forth . |