Example sentences of "[coord] were [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hoped to provide a convincing explanation of why such surrenders of so-called national sovereignty were or were not to the advantage of nations . |
| 2 | Didsbury , St Osyth 's , Worcester and others which had previously had discussions with the CNAA were either already back in discussion , or were soon to be so . |
| 3 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 4 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 5 | Rather sadly , the sites allotted to these clinics were often away from the main hospital departments and were either to be found in dungeon-like basements or else in prefabricated huts . |
| 6 | The following are two examples from brochures in the early 1990s which were distributed to parents and local businesses , and were even to be found in doctors ' and dentists ' waiting rooms . |
| 7 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 8 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |
| 9 | The fires of her fury against him , long buried , had risen up , and were not to be contained . |
| 10 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 11 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 12 | In the early eighteenth century all uncultivated districts were labelled ‘ wild ’ and ‘ horrid ’ , and were therefore to be shunned . |
| 13 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 14 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 15 | They built manyattas , but were not to be found in them ; they were Potemkin manyattas , the real ones flourishing in inaccessible places . |