Example sentences of "this [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 2 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 3 | However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical . |
| 4 | If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred . |
| 5 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 6 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 7 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 8 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 9 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 10 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 11 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 12 | This was to be expected given the experience and personalities involved such as Morse , Thomson , Field , Bright and Brunel . |
| 13 | We actively desired an ever closer union of the European peoples , but it was not laid down how and when this was to be achieved . |
| 14 | This was to be Boomer 's last appearance in the Ryder Cup , although he was still quite clearly a good enough player to hold his own against the best of the Americans . |
| 15 | This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls . |
| 16 | This was to be achieved partly by diversifying exports , but more significantly by creating local industries to manufacture goods that had previously been imported . |
| 17 | This was to be demonstrated in the same way as the arbitrariness of capital relations of production by showing that in totally different systems the family was totally different . |
| 18 | In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power . |
| 19 | This was to be achieved through fascination with base material ( excrement , big toes , freaks , anything that highminded principles and good taste decreed lowly ) ; through an obsessional interest in ritual and religiosity , a pagan celebration of the moment rather than investment in a scheme of forward planning and providence , a pagan worship of the icon-in-all-its-materiality rather than of the Essence . |
| 20 | It was impossible to hug and kiss her with those letters in the background ( all the more , since this was to be their first , and thus an unforgettable , kiss ) , and so he had no choice but to turn back with a bitter sense of capitulation . |
| 21 | But if this was to be achieved then public spending — as a proportion of national wealth — had to come down . |
| 22 | This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble . |
| 23 | her strong suit was the family chronicle and , if this was to be extended over three or more generations , enough leading personages had to be kept in the land of the living . |
| 24 | Henceforth , and unlike the earlier period , this was to be the dominant aspect of the rite . |
| 25 | This was to be expected with the land being the main basic ingredient in the viability of the business . |
| 26 | This was to be achieved by subjecting the child to a rigidly regulated regime based on discipline , training , and religion ( Ruyter and Van Weelden , 1986 ) . |
| 27 | The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working . |
| 28 | Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance . |
| 29 | This was to be achieved by increasing the cost of buying and running cars by about 50 per cent . |
| 30 | I had achieved what I came to Peru to do and , more than I could realise , this was to be the end of something . |