Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 2 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 3 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 4 | Nothing men had said or written was to be trusted . |
| 5 | A public revenue approach to costing was to be adopted , which meant focusing on the cost of services received , and excluding the cost of housing , personal living expenses and informal care from the main calculations . |
| 6 | Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , had been promised was to be his . |
| 7 | The Eye Hospital was entering a team for the 10-mile ‘ fun run ’ to be held on 24th September and all monies raised were to be given to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association . |
| 8 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 9 | Freemen who failed to swear were to be mutilated and exiled . |
| 10 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 11 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 12 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |
| 13 | Garland ( 1985a ) notes three themes in their programme : reform , prevention — and extinction ; those who could not be reformed were to be eliminated . |
| 14 | He 'd had his go , if all that was rumoured was to be believed . |
| 15 | The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics . |
| 16 | The last thing she needed was to be up in front of the stewards again . |
| 17 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 18 | The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison . |
| 19 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 20 | The last thing she needed was to be found trespassing in the Baron 's private grounds . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 22 | They were also in a test situation , and were aware that the passages they were reading were to be followed by questions . |
| 23 | If taking were to be kept as the basis of the offence , it would be necessary to create a separate offence of dishonest retention or disposal in order to deal with these cases . |
| 24 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 25 | The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report , |
| 26 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 27 | None of the schemes Curzon feared was to be accomplished . |
| 28 | The need , he felt was to be realistic ; idealism was all very well , but what is necessary is a practical programme based upon mutual self-interest . |
| 29 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 30 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |