Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 2 | RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used . |
| 3 | Outside the charmed circle of high politics , radicalism on the far left developed utopian socialist blueprints which neglected pragmatic considerations of how they were to be achieved . |
| 4 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 5 | Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured . |
| 6 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
| 7 | This must be a taste of how it was to be a Marine in armour , whose servo-suit responded to the motions of his body , magnifying these … |
| 8 | The most critical part of the whole job was planning exactly what needed to be done , how it was to be done and when . |
| 9 | We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done . |
| 10 | Cold water and washing soap , this was how it was to be . |
| 11 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 12 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 13 | This was not how it was to be . |
| 14 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
| 15 | He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea . |
| 16 | Precisely how he was to be enticed aboard a suitable vessel remained in doubt , particularly as the DEA neither owned nor controlled a suitable vessel . |
| 17 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
| 18 | Feargal had n't asked anyone where she was to be put , just brought her up here . |
| 19 | The Branch supported the running costs for this special day when they were to be hosts at Storrington . |
| 20 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 21 | The convoy was moved through BLEIBURG to LAVAMUND from where they were to be taken by march route to MARIBOR — a distance of some 53 miles . |
| 22 | Thus in the United Brands ( 1978 ) case , the company was not permitted to charge ( in Rotterdam/Bremerhaven ) different prices for bananas depending on where they were to be sold ( lowest price in Eire , highest price in Germany ) . |
| 23 | during the 1650s , when he assisted in the transfer of works of art from York House to Holland , where they were to be sold , and in 1656 he accompanied his friend , the painter ( Sir ) Peter Lely [ q.v. ] , |
| 24 | Francis Yuen , the controversial head of the Hong Kong stock exchange , announced his resignation on Sept. 6 with effect from Oct. 26 , when he was to be succeeded by Paul Chow . |
| 25 | Duhalde had tendered his resignation with effect from Dec. 11 , when he was to be sworn in as Governor of the province of Buenos Aires , a post which he had won in the Sept. 8 elections [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 26 | Should it be desired to alter this state of affairs , there would be many who would assert that the change could not be made without the consent of the part of the United Kingdom affected , however it were to be expressed . |
| 27 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 28 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 29 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 30 | The completed upholstery was finished at the point where it was to be fixed in the coach . |