Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [was/were] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nos. 11E , l8E and 20E were available for Cohen 's men to inspect first at Thornton Heath depôt and the others in store at Brixton Hill depôt where all were to be broken up . |
| 2 | How much would it cost if fair compensation were paid to the standard rate taxpayer each year if that were to be done ? |
| 3 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 4 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 5 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 6 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 7 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 8 | But if this was to be achieved then public spending — as a proportion of national wealth — had to come down . |
| 9 | her strong suit was the family chronicle and , if this was to be extended over three or more generations , enough leading personages had to be kept in the land of the living . |
| 10 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 11 | If these were to be conceded , they would rule out a number of technical options . |
| 12 | Other institutional supports for citizenship could include a more responsive system of local government , and national and regional assemblies if these were to be set up . |
| 13 | He did not know who was to be detained or whether any were to be released . |
| 14 | We actively desired an ever closer union of the European peoples , but it was not laid down how and when this was to be achieved . |