Example sentences of "[adv] were to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those lacking this knowledge tended not to succeed in the first graduation step and usually were to be seen a year or so later in either group D or E. |
| 2 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 4 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 5 | Here were to be found the flying schools , the workshops and the hangars of Bristol , Deperdussin , A V Roe , Sopwith , Martinsyde and Vickers . |
| 6 | She had five managers in mind , who mostly were to be found in the same quarter of London . |
| 7 | They also protested that under the law half of any funds received from abroad were to be placed in a special " fund for democracy " . |
| 8 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 9 | In the short term the Yenan Koreans were important in the development of the north Korean state but subsequently were to be liquidated by Kim Il Sung . |
| 10 | For the retail co-operatives , it posed the question whether their employees too were to be paid a bonus , thus reducing the amount available for distribution on purchases , or whether they should be paid the rate for the job . |
| 11 | The grounds were that the work which the appellant offered to carry out when he presented himself to Mr. Burt and Mr. Hughes as a qualified accountant ( and the remuneration that he gained the opportunity to earn as a result ) were services to be provided by him as a self-employed fee-earning accountant , and therefore were to be provided neither under a contract of employment nor by virtue of his holding of an office within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 12 | The rigidity of what was expected from children in terms of compliance to religious and moral ideologies could have no more perfect expression than in the two small late 18th century carved wooden figures of the Blue Coat Schoolboy and Schoolgirl which until recently were to be found in All Saints Church , Maidstone . |