Example sentences of "were to [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were to be intermediary between capital and labour and based precisely upon types of vocational expertise in a way similar to medieval guilds ( Leo XIII 1903 : 240–7 ; Pius XI 1931 : 32–4 ) . |
| 2 | The teams were to be specialist in focus and expert in approach and were to serve areas of 80–100,000 population . |
| 3 | By 1970 there were to be education departments in seven polytechnics in England and one in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | The memo continues by stating that if the group who were to be part of the first squadron returned by road , they would waste too much time and should therefore be flown back to collect the new vehicles and supplies needed at Kufra . |
| 5 | Blake realized that they were to be part of some evil black magic ceremony . |
| 6 | Ministers also agreed guidelines for EC policy towards Latin America and Asia over the next decade ; priorities were to be development aid for the poorest population groups and economic co-operation with areas with a strong growth potential . |
| 7 | At the local level there were to be branch juvenile exchanges and wherever possible branch care committees , and the duties of both corresponded to those of their London counterparts . |
| 8 | When so that if the parameter were to be unity , the response would be identical to first-order Butterworth . |
| 9 | That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators . |
| 10 | These were to be presentation roughs for the sponsors , BP , and so were sent with overlays annotated with my final queries . |
| 11 | There were to be tax incentives for foreign investors . |
| 12 | Tom proposed that two of these should be used as studs , or servers ; there were five women who were to be brood mares for the plantation . |
| 13 | He was determined to regain what his father had lost , and raise the French monarchy from its abasement after Poitiers ; but his methods were to be diplomacy , subversion , and limited campaigns rather than a great battle in which , as he appreciated , the French were liable to be defeated yet again . |