Example sentences of "[det] 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 Some were to be tenanted by cooks , washerwomen , labourers and grooms .
13 If such were to be the case , the court would be confronted with a difference of medical opinion , very similar to the case in In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1421 .
14 These were to be intermediary between capital and labour and based precisely upon types of vocational expertise in a way similar to medieval guilds ( Leo XIII 1903 : 240–7 ; Pius XI 1931 : 32–4 ) .
15 These were to be considered at the AGM on 20 September 1986 when the association would seek to create ‘ a blend of social and professional academic pursuit ’ .
16 Other institutional supports for citizenship could include a more responsive system of local government , and national and regional assemblies if these were to be set up .
17 These were to be the major elements of the action project .
18 these were to be on 2,400 hectares in the Black Country , 4,500 hectares on Teesside , a Tyne & Wear Corporation along the River Tyne and one in Trafford Park ( Grt Manchester ) .
19 These were to be the last workmen 's cottages built at Wolverton by the Company .
20 If these were to be conceded , they would rule out a number of technical options .
21 In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades .
22 The factory which opened in 1986 at Washington , Tyne and Wear was capable of assembling 24,000 cars only and these were to be constructed from ‘ kits ’ imported from Japan .
23 Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel .
24 Some of these were to be offered as votives in the temple 's sanctuaries : others entered a trading network which might take them to the farthest ends of the island or overseas .
25 These were to be situated in ordinary houses in the main towns — Paignton , Totnes , Torquay and Newton Abbot .
26 Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon .
27 These were to be placed upon the tombs of his ancestors who lay buried there — Henry II , Richard I , Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoulême ( see plate 2.1 ) .
28 These were to be of a loose fit above the knee and slightly tapered below to follow ‘ the shape of the leg from above the calf to the top of the shoe . ’
29 These were to be financed by voluntary contributions , by charges on parents or , as a last resort , from public funds .
30 This is followed by a description of the shortcomings of provision at that time , a statement of aims and objectives and a projection for how these were to be achieved against the background of the staff , PTA and governing body involvement described earlier , and the investment of £5,000 from 1982/83 capitation in refurbishing .
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