Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] to be " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die .
3 However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical .
4 If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred .
5 The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century .
6 And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ?
7 No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded .
8 If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel .
9 If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms .
10 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 ’ .
11 " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " .
12 In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts .
13 The Sverdlov-class of cruiser , of which 22 were to be built , was an extremely versatile type of warship .
14 The French were to be excluded from offices in Scotland — and Scottish noblemen must reject French pensions .
15 Some were to be tenanted by cooks , washerwomen , labourers and grooms .
16 But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural .
17 In comprehensive schools , all the British were to be treated the same , despite the obvious differences between us of sex , class , culture , ability , religion , race , and so on .
18 This was to be expected given the experience and personalities involved such as Morse , Thomson , Field , Bright and Brunel .
19 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 .
20 This was to be Boomer 's last appearance in the Ryder Cup , although he was still quite clearly a good enough player to hold his own against the best of the Americans .
21 This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls .
22 This was to be achieved partly by diversifying exports , but more significantly by creating local industries to manufacture goods that had previously been imported .
23 This was to be demonstrated in the same way as the arbitrariness of capital relations of production by showing that in totally different systems the family was totally different .
24 In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power .
25 This was to be achieved through fascination with base material ( excrement , big toes , freaks , anything that highminded principles and good taste decreed lowly ) ; through an obsessional interest in ritual and religiosity , a pagan celebration of the moment rather than investment in a scheme of forward planning and providence , a pagan worship of the icon-in-all-its-materiality rather than of the Essence .
26 It was impossible to hug and kiss her with those letters in the background ( all the more , since this was to be their first , and thus an unforgettable , kiss ) , and so he had no choice but to turn back with a bitter sense of capitulation .
27 But if this was to be achieved then public spending — as a proportion of national wealth — had to come down .
28 This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble .
29 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 .
30 Henceforth , and unlike the earlier period , this was to be the dominant aspect of the rite .
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