Example sentences of "[pos pn] [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 | Their tactics were to be to maintain a tight-lipped silence punctuated by claims that the new job was harder . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its effects were to be felt long after Gouraud and his successor , General Weygand , had died . |
| 7 | Some of its effects were to be much condemned . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 11 | But her fears were to be reawakened during the summer of 1990 . |
| 12 | Now their generals were to be outmanoeuvred . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But any oath of peace , if its terms were to be at all realistic , needed to include the Aquitainian rebels . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | Its decisions were to be by majority vote , and its verdicts would be final . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Charlotte could not see how their enquiries were to be taken forward . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Teesside TEC chief executive John Howell said Astra had apparently decided to tell the trainees their courses were to be curtailed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Its hallmarks were to be found in the large scale of the treated areas and in the integrated nature of the treatment . |
| 25 | The Southampton branch refused to send delegates to the Annual General Meeting at which its complaints were to be discussed and addressed a letter to the meeting in which the branch committee advised Southampton members to secede from the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union in order to establish a local and independent society . |
| 26 | The Mandal report was shelved by successive Congress ( I ) governments during the 1980s and V. P. Singh 's announcement in early August that its recommendations were to be implemented startled all sections of Indian society . |
| 27 | All lands afforested by Henry II or his sons were to be disafforested . |
| 28 | He was determined to regain what his father had lost , and raise the French monarchy from its abasement after Poitiers ; but his methods were to be diplomacy , subversion , and limited campaigns rather than a great battle in which , as he appreciated , the French were liable to be defeated yet again . |
| 29 | When he reported for the necessary swearing and documentation , the local recruiting officer and his staff were understandably disappointed that Harold could tell them nothing about what his duties were to be . |
| 30 | But there never could be such an observer — at least not if his thought-processes were to be analysed in the same way as ours — because his thoughts about the relations of the particulars would themselves be just a succession of particulars whose relations , which give them meaning , were not directly accessible to him . |