Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar effort can be seen in the ukaz of 1797 by which the Tsar Paul ordered the admission to the College of Foreign Affairs of thirty young men who were to be trained there for diplomatic careers . |
| 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 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 4 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 5 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 6 | These theories were to be constructed inductively , without relying , as Realism did , on a priori assumptions . |
| 7 | These perceptions and feelings were to be examined qualitatively rather than by means of any standardised measures , since it was felt that such complex issues could not be ( or had never successfully been ) encapsulated in a standardised scale . |
| 8 | The disclosure of these plans forced a premature announcement that two plants — Cowley South and Llanelli Pressings — were to be run down and closed in the early 1990s with the loss of about 3,400 jobs . |
| 9 | Say , for instance that transport costs are high relative to competitors ' , but yet if the enterprise were to be run down this would cause large-scale local unemployment . |
| 10 | Because the new base would not be ready for five years , the F-16s were to be based temporarily in other NATO countries after leaving Spain . |
| 11 | The thousands of tons of earth which were to be dug out of the meadow to make room for the foundations were to be piled up in nearby Merton playing field . |
| 12 | RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used . |
| 13 | Such limited logistic installations as were needed west of Singapore were to be built up at Aden , but as few troops as possible would be stationed there . |
| 14 | The best-armed — and most opportunistic — of the Palestinian guerrilla movements in Syria was Saiqa ( ‘ the lightning bolt ’ ) , whose officers were themselves Syrian and whose energies were to be employed almost exclusively against their brother Palestinians . |
| 15 | Pass the straps between the forefinger and the thumb , then by closing the hand , the loop is gripped firm , and one retains full sensitivity as though the line were to be connected directly to the arm . |
| 16 | If the Earth were to be moved today into the orbit of Venus then the ice caps would melt , the oceans would start to evaporate , the carbonate rocks would begin to yield up CO 2 , and various other surface reservoirs would begin to lose volatiles . |
| 17 | And it was striking that in both instances the referenda did stimulate a serious and extensive debate about the matters which were to be decided on — or at least voted on . |
| 18 | Most issues were to be decided unanimously , where any one state clearly had a veto , or by a qualified majority of 12 votes from at least four states : this was designed to protect the interests of all states , not just the smaller members . |
| 19 | He accordingly devoted his subsequent research efforts to discovering these plant remedies , which were to be related particularly to temperament , mood and states of mind . |
| 20 | The problems that this could cause were to be demonstrated all too vividly in 1968 . |
| 21 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 22 | In contrast , when he was forced to admit , in early June 1977 , that the trooPs concentrated in response to the UUAC general strike were to be withdrawn as soon as possible , he endeavoured to reassure the public with the remark , ‘ More is being done in the field of SAS-type activities than is realised and this will now be intensified . ’ |
| 23 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 24 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 25 | Two such girders — one for the up line , one for the down — were to be made here at the riverside and floated on the tide , to be fitted into niches in the masonry piers . |
| 26 | In the Barlow Clowes case Millett J agreed , and added ‘ that the proper and efficient functioning of the process of compulsory liquidation would be jeopardised if transcripts of the formal interviews of witnesses carried out by liquidators were to be made generally available to defendants to criminal proceedings ’ . |
| 27 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with PWI slated for May 19 . |
| 28 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 29 | He also realised that condensation would be better if , immediately after steam was admitted , the cylinder were to be made as cold as possible . |
| 30 | Local councils were to be made more democratic but less important ’ ( Carroll and Carroll 1980:297 ) . |