Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 2 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 3 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 4 | Parliament listed a number of goods , known as the ‘ enumerated articles ’ , which the colonies were not allowed to send anywhere outside the empire , and which were to be carried out only in ships from England or from the country of origin . |
| 5 | Only three spare rooms were to be provided on the second floor of the Foreign Office , and none were to be provided in the War Department . |
| 6 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 7 | The linen on the beds was to be changed once in fourteen days , and there were to be three blankets and one quilt to each bed . |
| 8 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 9 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 10 | He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day , laughing over reminiscences . |
| 11 | The shirts were presented for the occasion by Buchan — and they were to be Arsenal 's downfall . |
| 12 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 13 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |
| 14 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 15 | In fact while we find duces in charge of groups of civitates , they also appear as leaders of royal armies , without any clear geographical base , and they were to be found engaged in a wide variety of other activites , including diplomatic missions . |
| 16 | I think if you look through the books , there are comments in there where they were n't sure , with question marks and they were to be rechecked . |
| 17 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 18 | Events after 1969 shows that Nixon intended to continue the use of America 's great influence and power ; but there were to be no more Vietnams . |
| 19 | Smith and Cusack then had shots blocked in another goalmouth scramble , but there were to be no more real goal attempts by Darlington after that . |
| 20 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 21 | In November 1946 , the pre-war decision to get rid of the trams was reaffirmed , but they were to be replaced by motor buses and not trolleybuses . |
| 22 | But they were to be disappointed . |