Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they were [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them .
2 RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used .
3 Outside the charmed circle of high politics , radicalism on the far left developed utopian socialist blueprints which neglected pragmatic considerations of how they were to be achieved .
4 It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed .
5 The Branch supported the running costs for this special day when they were to be hosts at Storrington .
6 At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up .
7 The convoy was moved through BLEIBURG to LAVAMUND from where they were to be taken by march route to MARIBOR — a distance of some 53 miles .
8 Thus in the United Brands ( 1978 ) case , the company was not permitted to charge ( in Rotterdam/Bremerhaven ) different prices for bananas depending on where they were to be sold ( lowest price in Eire , highest price in Germany ) .
9 during the 1650s , when he assisted in the transfer of works of art from York House to Holland , where they were to be sold , and in 1656 he accompanied his friend , the painter ( Sir ) Peter Lely [ q.v. ] ,
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