Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
| 2 | Nos. 11E , l8E and 20E were available for Cohen 's men to inspect first at Thornton Heath depôt and the others in store at Brixton Hill depôt where all were to be broken up . |
| 3 | Only a lonely rajah or two was to be seen now , solitary figures surrounded by servants , watching through elaborate brass telescopes acquired at one or other of the European stores in Calcutta . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never seen one before , ’ she said excitedly , when it was clear that that was to be their only sighting . |
| 5 | The judge referred to a previous decision of his , In re H. ( Minor ) ( Abduction ) [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 439 , but he said that that was to be distinguished because in that case there was in existence at the time of the removal an order of the court that the child should not be removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 6 | Feeling that little was to be gained by personal protest either to the BBC or through their local MP to Parliament , they decided that the best approach was to issue a Manifesto . |
| 7 | The Whigs had recovered somewhat by 1705 , giving the Tories a good run for their money , and they actually won the Election in 1708 , although this was to be the only General Election they were to win under Anne . |
| 8 | In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power . |
| 9 | When asking for his correspondence with the Treasury to be published , Hall could hardly have suspected that this was to be one of his last official acts . |
| 10 | Messages were transmitted that this was to be work experience for teachers . |
| 11 | Their agreement was that this was to be a pre-supper drink with Colin and Yvonne , the limit both of time and alcohol consumption clearly understood between her and Norman before they left home . |
| 12 | Long experience had told me that this was to be expected . |
| 13 | I remember thinking that this was to be alive . |
| 14 | I could hardly believe that this was to be the end of the public life of a man so comparatively young , and with so much still to give … |
| 15 | Time , at last , to call a baby boy after father himself , so this was to be Benjamin Titford , junior — destined to become a silversmith by trade , and a bit of an entrepreneur like his uncle William Charles . |
| 16 | Neither writers nor architects were wholly unaware that these were to be houses for human beings to live in . |
| 17 | Britain and the United States were similar , though , in that both were to be brought out of the Depression of the 1930s not by government economic policies but by rearmament and the Second World War . |
| 18 | The only game in town was mass circulation , and that was to be achieved by NoS becoming an aggressively popular tabloid . |
| 19 | A year later he joined the Italian MV team and that was to be the start of five glorious years for Surrey-born Surtees . |
| 20 | When the CNAA took over the DMS there were nationally some 6600 students enrolled on courses , and that was to be the order of magnitude of enrolments through the late 1970s and 1980s . |
| 21 | Route 4 — West Croydon — Penge was to be abandoned and competing bus services 12 and 75 were to be strengthened . |
| 22 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 23 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 24 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 25 | If that were to be the outcome , it would mean putting the clock back not twelve years , but a hundred years . |
| 26 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 27 | How much would it cost if fair compensation were paid to the standard rate taxpayer each year if that were to be done ? |
| 28 | Er , they would be helped , I think , by this and er , I think if that were to be the case , then I 'd be wholeheartedly behind it . |
| 29 | Er similarly we feel it would be more appropriate if that were to be the case er perhaps should point out there are other schemes where we have shown a series of of lines stars on the key diagram , it 's not just on the Harrogate . |
| 30 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |