Example sentences of "[conj] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 2 | To furnish the interior authentically , the owner sought out period items — panelled doors , chimney pieces , etc — from local buildings that were to be demolished and installed them in appropriate positions . |
| 3 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 4 | He contemplated the cattle trucks that were to be his and the platoon 's home until further notice . |
| 5 | The crowd went home quietly via the 300 pubs that were to be found in the East End of Glasgow in the good old days . |
| 6 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |
| 7 | He fell over and clouted his head against one of the heavy silvered cast-iron radiators that were to be found throughout the school . |
| 8 | The next few weeks were busy one for all the Pack and their mothers , who baked and stitched and sewed , and listened to recitations and lines from plays that were to be performed by the Brownies , and answered their questions about this , that and the other , and tried to put their sudden doubts and fears at rest . |
| 9 | Second , the small congregation at St Barnabas ' , of some fifteen , that were to be ‘ moved in on ’ had had to accept radical changes that were presented to them prior to the move for their agreement . |
| 10 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 11 | Rolling off Vought 's Dallas production line , BuNo 133772 was one of 94 new-build aircraft that were to be supplied to the French Aeronavale , under the US Government 's Military Defence Assistance Programme ( MDAP ) , between 1952 and 1953 — the last Corsairs to be built . |
| 12 | Then there was Tiare , named after Polynesia 's whitest flower , who had inherited a secret hoard of paintings from her artist father , paintings that were to be a turning point in the history of the island . |
| 13 | By the late neolithic , Knossian house plans had become quite elaborate , with square fireplaces set against a wall or in the centre of the room , and with neighbouring dwellings juxtaposed to make a cellular layout familiar in Early Minoan villages such as Fournou Korifi ( Myrtos ) and the temples that were to be built in the Middle Minoan . |
| 14 | The barrel of the gun and all the areas of the engine that were to be given a metal finish were then painted Chaos Black . |
| 15 | Thus , it began to incorporate the principles of determinism and the differentiation of offenders from non-offenders that were to be the later hallmarks of positivist criminology . |
| 16 | In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime . |
| 17 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 18 | Having chosen the four townships that were to be the location of the snowball samples , it remained to select the zero stage of the samples , one individual from each township with whom to start the referral chains . |
| 19 | Use of the library resource centre means that the children would have immediate access to a much larger collection than can normally be gathered in a series of project or topic boxes , of the kind that were to be gathered for the use of the eight groups in this example . |
| 20 | The pair arrived with money and dispatches written in invisible ink that were to be handed over to one of the leaders of the insurrectionary party in Spain , currently conspiring to get rid of the autocratic King Ferdinand and currently enjoying the support of idealistic and poetical young Englishmen . |
| 21 | There are signs that their enterprise was resented , a foretaste of the accusations of selfish materialism that were to be pinned on Catalans for a hundred years to come . |
| 22 | Bold , reckless , keen in business , not disinclined for a brush with the pirates that were to be found on many a coast as yet , making money fast , they used to have a general " rendezvous " in the bay for the purposes of trade and dissipation . |
| 23 | While little attempt was made to alter the character of the patchwork of health services available in the inter war period , all the parties that were to be involved in their transformation in the 1940s were beginning to examine the weaknesses of the existing provision and to formulate alternatives . |
| 24 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 25 | The ‘ simpliciter ’ collection is simple indeed — four parts , the highest carrying the melody — but the ‘ fugue-wise ’ ones treat the successive phrases of the hymn in motet style on lines that were to be followed throughout the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 26 | The contributions that were to be offered with the study of process may be surveyed from the viewpoint of soil science and the biogeographer , from that of the climatologist and the geomorphologist and then from the field of hydrology which to some extent provided a new focus of interest for physical geographers and one that proffered a link between at least the geomorphic and climatic aspects of physical environment . |
| 27 | Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level . |
| 28 | The sobering experience of war , which now determined Nietzsche 's general outlook , affected his thoughts about the tragic spirit that were to be embodied in the coming book . |
| 29 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 30 | Where are the staff that were to be recruited to service the customers during these new extended opening hours ? |