Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | The most critical part of the whole job was planning exactly what needed to be done , how it was to be done and when . |
| 8 | We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done . |
| 9 | Cold water and washing soap , this was how it was to be . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | This was not how it was to be . |
| 13 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
| 14 | He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea . |
| 15 | 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 . |