Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 2 | Brewers found to have diluted their products were to be incarcerated in their own vats . |
| 3 | Their methods were to be essentially agitational — employing lectures , insertions in the daily press , travelling agitators in foreign parts and a campaign of publishing . |
| 4 | At this same meeting it was reported that Charles Vial had presented 10 copies of his plan of 19 March 1790 , for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine , for which thanks were to be transmitted by the secretary . |
| 5 | The Delegates Conference during the Scarborough Congress in 1968 accordingly recommended " a long-term enquiry during which branches were to be encouraged to consider the question carefully and to invite speakers on the subject , followed by a postal vote by individual members for guidance on future policy . " |
| 6 | Their tactics were to be to maintain a tight-lipped silence punctuated by claims that the new job was harder . |
| 7 | They had arrived at their given destination , had ridden out the Chief Wren 's wrath , and tea — and toast , too , if their noses were to be believed — were within blessed reach . |
| 8 | Its effects were to be felt long after Gouraud and his successor , General Weygand , had died . |
| 9 | Some of its effects were to be much condemned . |
| 10 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 11 | * The pattern of differences in relation to topics was very similar to that obtained in APU surveys : boys scored up to 17 percentage points more than girls on measures and scale reading items ; the largest difference , 19 points , was for an item in which angles were to be compared . |
| 12 | Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’ |
| 13 | On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair . |
| 14 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 15 | But her fears were to be reawakened during the summer of 1990 . |
| 16 | Now their generals were to be outmanoeuvred . |
| 17 | In November 1857 he instructed V. I. Nazimov , the Governor of Vil'na , Kovno and Grodno , to let the gentry of the three north-western provinces establish local committees for the purpose of determining how their serfs were to be emancipated . |
| 18 | But any oath of peace , if its terms were to be at all realistic , needed to include the Aquitainian rebels . |
| 19 | Yet if Russians had known how the process of emancipation was to develop and what its terms were to be , they might have thought that Nikolai Miliutin possessed a crystal ball . |
| 20 | Its objectives were to be quite ambitious : to vet proposed national legislation and to submit proposals for new legislation in such a way that conformity of objective and practice would be achieved , and also to ensure a coordinated joint Nordic view at international conferences . |
| 21 | Its members were to be nominees of national governments : while all the states were to be represented , not more than two members could come from any one state . |
| 22 | Since older miners were usually no longer fit to work at the coal-face and did less well-remunerated jobs on or near the surface , this meant that in old age — if they reached it — their pensions were to be a calculated on the basis of their more poorly paid years at work ! |
| 23 | Its decisions were to be by majority vote , and its verdicts would be final . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Charlotte could not see how their enquiries were to be taken forward . |
| 25 | As originally conceived in the White Paper , the main characteristics of the polytechnics were that they were to be large , comprehensive , have an applied philosophy , be primarily teaching institutions with a brief to develop courses in new areas , and their courses were to be validated by the CNAA . |
| 26 | Teesside TEC chief executive John Howell said Astra had apparently decided to tell the trainees their courses were to be curtailed . |
| 27 | In 1529 the reading , purchasing or possessing of proscribed books , attendance at any meeting of heretics , disputing about Holy Scripture , and want of respect for the images of God and the saints were all made crimes for which men were to be beheaded , women buried alive , and relapsed heretics burned . |
| 28 | Although Sugar 's war was now over , the sound of her engines were to be heard over Europe on many more occasions over the next few weeks . |
| 29 | Its hallmarks were to be found in the large scale of the treated areas and in the integrated nature of the treatment . |
| 30 | Village meetings would possibly have reached consensual decisions on the order in which crops were to be worked , under the leadership of elders . |