Example sentences of "there [was/were] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were to be a programme of comparable generosity to the new democracies , it would be necessary to reduce some category of expenditure within the industrial countries . |
| 2 | There were to be a lot of evacuations in the coming years , by land , sea and air , each accompanied by promises from departing residents that their absence would only be temporary . |
| 3 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 4 | If there were to be a failure in maintaining this conquest , the ‘ livelihood ’ of these people would be at stake . |
| 5 | If moreover there were to be a case of parthenogenesis , the resulting foetus would be female , for there would be no ‘ Y ’ chromosome present ! |
| 6 | If there were to be a reduction in the mark-up , then this would further reinforce the effect . |
| 7 | If there were to be a Labour Government or the unlikely event of a Liberal Democrat Government , it would be open house for local authorities to spend and spend , just like Viv Nicholson . |
| 8 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 9 | If there were to be an image of a woman in that book , that one picture would stand out as the exception . |
| 10 | Er if there were to be an exceptions policy the suggestion has been made that certain districts perhaps could be identified er as being a suitable location . |
| 11 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 12 | There was to be a modest reduction in their strength from 800,000 to 700,000 in all ranks . |
| 13 | In the autumn there was to be a break in his usual routine . |
| 14 | There was to be a reception , and later we were invited to dinner at the house of the British Council representative . |
| 15 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 16 | There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching , and to make part-time teaching more attractive . |
| 17 | There was to be a Prayer Group established at Westminster Abbey . |
| 18 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 19 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 20 | There was to be a term of solitary confinement for each prisoner to bring his brain into ‘ the highest state of susceptibility for receiving moral and religious impressions ’ . |
| 21 | However , there was to be a significant change as the convoy journeyed further north . |
| 22 | There was to be a very full programme of lectures on the Saturday , and a formal dinner , so no doubt people were getting a good night 's sleep in readiness . |
| 23 | Explicit in the design of the projects was the attempt to achieve these aims without diverting traffic to other areas — in other words there was to be a genuine experiment in calming existing traffic in situ , not simply exporting the problems to other districts . |
| 24 | If there was to be a severe winter , George hoped that he would see the warning signs early enough to anticipate it . |
| 25 | Among those who voted against it were some closeted gays : if there was to be a purge , they did not wish to be among the victims . |
| 26 | At each stage there was to be a reshuffle of cars in depôts , so that the worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first and the better cars from a depôt closing were moved to another one . |
| 27 | There was to be a Consumer Credit Commissioner with wide powers and many responsibilities , including administration of a comprehensive licensing system . |
| 28 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 29 | Mrs Hobbs had stayed behind in the hotel at Ouerzzazate because of the heat ; Richard and Flora because there was to be a celebration for the King of the Belgians and Flora wanted to see the women dancing . |
| 30 | Yet still , there was to be a branding upon the leather-tough buttocks : an imprint of a clenched fist , no larger than a fingernail . |