Example sentences of "man [was/were] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man was to be got through this particular exam because he was from Cambridge . |
| 2 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |
| 3 | He had it nocked , and the hemp half drawn back when an extra flare lit the sky , and he saw how close the man was to firing , and how ill he looked , and how young he was : a hollow-faced boy , defending the walls of Famagusta . |
| 4 | The man was to be given 3000 s. morlaas and the seneschal of Gascony was to constrain Arnaud-Raymond 's heirs to implement his wishes . |
| 5 | The guilty man was to be drawn on an ox hide to the gallows , where he was hanged . |
| 6 | The jury was told the men were to be paid £1,000 each with £500 expenses by Mr Brown 's wife to kill him . |
| 7 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 8 | Wherever possible , Red Army men were to be installed on the committees . |
| 9 | In these samples older farmers were found in Leicestershire , Cumbria and Derbyshire , whilst the younger men were to be found mainly in North Wales , North Yorkshire , Orkney and Speyside . |
| 10 | Men were to her what waves had become to me . |
| 11 | The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers . |
| 12 | An Essex Police spokesman said the three men were to be praised for their swift action following the raid . |
| 13 | In 1529 the reading , purchasing or possessing of proscribed books , attendance at any meeting of heretics , disputing about Holy Scripture , and want of respect for the images of God and the saints were all made crimes for which men were to be beheaded , women buried alive , and relapsed heretics burned . |
| 14 | Very few wholly unqualified men were to be found at the summit of the administration . |
| 15 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |
| 16 | Taylor 's men were to hand in their weapons at the NPFL bases at Firestone , Naama , Salala , Ganta , Gbarnga , Zwedru , and Toedi-Mesurado . |
| 17 | The projects were set out in a pamphlet with the alluring title , We Can Conquer Unemployment : 350,000 men were to be employed on road-building , 60 , 000 on housing , 60,000 on telephone development and 62,000 on electrical development . |
| 18 | Henceforth , as far as the Milettis were concerned , Zen was Bartocci 's accomplice , the henchman whose men were to be used to enforce their enemy 's will . |
| 19 | If the votes of working men were to be obtained , the parties had to offer them something . |
| 20 | The confining of political rights , and most political activity , to men was to be characteristic of all official politics , including democratic politics , until about one hundred years ago . |
| 21 | To scoff at or curse the little men was to court disaster , for they made formidable enemies . |
| 22 | One of the pictured men was to be brought to trial accused of murdering Julie . |