Example sentences of "[indef pn] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone were to be left alone in one of these structures , not only would the physical senses be deprived , but the individual would be in a psychic atmosphere well suited to the encouragement of inspirational and prophetic experiences . |
| 2 | Someone had gone to Germany , someone had returned from London , someone was in hospital , someone was to be married . |
| 3 | Any judge found cases of this type difficult because , whatever the decision , somebody was to be grievously hurt . |
| 4 | Only three spare rooms were to be provided on the second floor of the Foreign Office , and none were to be provided in the War Department . |
| 5 | None were to be relieved who had a right to the benefit of the Insolvent Act currently going through Parliament , except by paying their clearance fees . |
| 6 | Grey seals are reputed to breed in this area but despite many orbits none were to be seen . |
| 7 | There were to be three more co-opted Governors , to be appointed for a term of five years , but none was to be appointed until the original " life " Governors gave up their seats . |
| 8 | Most looked well fed , plump even , but in the alleyways off the markets , Athelstan saw the poor , not like those in his parish but the landless men driven from their farms , flocking into the city to look for work though none was to be had . |
| 9 | The answer , if one were to be found , quite obviously lay outside the restrictive confines of manly pursuit . |
| 10 | In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better . |
| 11 | I have not heard of such an initiative , but if one were to be promulgated by the Community , we would consider it carefully . |
| 12 | Everything was to be paid for by gifts and private donations . |
| 13 | Everything was to be sold . |
| 14 | One was to be with Japan ( the very term ‘ global partnership ’ was coined for the American-Japanese relationship ) . |
| 15 | One was to be with Western Europe , led ( pretty explicitly ) by a united Germany . |
| 16 | They argued about which one was to be used . |
| 17 | No one was to be allowed to approach the body , although Bracy Clark , with the assistance of a London artist ( though to be Flaxman , 1755–1826 ) took a plaster of Paris death cast of his face . |
| 18 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 19 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 20 | No one was to be called upon to delve too deeply into his pocket , it was agreed . |
| 21 | Special instructions were given to stationmasters that should the trains stop at any station no one was to be allowed to board them . " |
| 22 | No one was to be trusted . |
| 23 | Full of enthusiasm , therefore , and anxious to try this product , I toured Gateway and other supermarkets but the product was too kwick for me and not one was to be found . |
| 24 | ‘ Miss Tunstall particularly said that no one was to be admitted to see her , ’ said Baines plaintively . |
| 25 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 26 | In Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 at 763D Lord Salmon explained the point as follows : In Re Hopper Cockburn CJ … was … saying that the question whether anyone was to be treated as an arbitrator depended on whether the role which he performed was invested with the characteristic attributes of the judicial role . |
| 27 | Everyone was to be educated on the same campus . |
| 28 | Not least in the sexual , for both projected a red-blooded response to their manhood which goes beyond the merely sexual or corporeal , claiming — demanding ! — the full world of nature and manhood as their proper spheres : nothing was to be too sacred , for all is sacred — a Blakeian conception which predates Blake in its patent Jewishness by millennia , not centuries . |
| 29 | In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Buffon remarked : ‘ Young cats are gay , vivacious , frolicksome , and , if nothing was to be apprehended from their claws , would afford excellent amusement to children . |
| 30 | Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred , excepting reason itself . |