Example sentences of "were only [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Subsistence pensions , at 40s 0d for a married couple or 24s 0d for a single person , were only to be attained after twenty years of slowly rising rates .
2 But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent .
3 Funding and subsidy schemes were only to be allowed provided they were open to all artists in the Community .
4 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 .
5 But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin , and Loos 's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects .
6 Then , great kindness and great love were only to be expected and accepted .
7 Under the Bretton Woods system , exchange rates were only to be changed in the face of fundamental disequilibrium , and GATT was designed to restrict the temptation to raise tariffs .
8 These funds were only to be disbursed when the compact agreement had been signed .
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