Example sentences of "they [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 2 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 3 | Wardle , Appleyard , Close , Lowson , Trueman and Illingworth entered cricket in Yardley 's reign and all had great respect for his tactical ingenuity and his benevolent , Gower-style leadership although they were to be critical later . |
| 4 | They were to be a new form of secondary school — ‘ beacons of excellence ’ — funded mainly by industry , and would concentrate on science and technology . |
| 5 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 6 | Exchange controls were also notably relaxed ; in the autumn they were to be abolished altogether . |
| 7 | The Branch supported the running costs for this special day when they were to be hosts at Storrington . |
| 8 | The arrival of the mail helped , too : a mound of letters from the relatives who were , or , if they were to be given free accommodation , thought that they were , coming to Uncle Karl 's party . |
| 9 | They were to be induced to carry out ‘ hostile activities on Soviet territory with the help of foreigners penetrating into Tadjikistan across the border ’ . |
| 10 | They were to be induced to carry out ‘ hostile activities on Soviet territory with the help of foreigners penetrating into Tadjikistan across the border ’ . |
| 11 | There are people now in the Wag Club whose musical digestive systems would probably collapse if they were to be inadvertently fed a powerchord . |
| 12 | New Times has pondered whether there would be such vehement opposition about sending ‘ our boys ’ abroad again if they were to be sent to fight for Iraq . |
| 13 | They were to be the basis of a new natural philosophy , and were advocated both by practising experimenters and by theoreticians . |
| 14 | It was the belief of many of its members that if explanations and theories were to be given for the facts collected in their natural histories , they were to be given in mechanical terms , specifically in terms of the corpuscular theory . |
| 15 | It had taken her three full days and now they were to be carried downstairs and arranged in the hall , after which her sister would take them to the post office . |
| 16 | The infant churches experienced from the synagogues persecution which , when full grown , they were to be in a position to return . |
| 17 | They were to be punishable under the Forest laws , however , if their dogs coursed in the royal forest . |
| 18 | They were to be made in each Forest county by an elected jury of twelve knights , two or more knights nominated by the Crown , and the foresters of fee and verderers . |
| 19 | The ‘ Articles concerning the Charters ’ ordained that they were to be observed in full , including those regarding disafforestment , and read out in every county court four times a year . |
| 20 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 21 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 22 | After repeated petitions by the ‘ commonalty of the county ’ , charters confirming the disafforestment of Surrey were finally granted on 26 December 1327 : they were to be proclaimed in the county court , and the warden of Windsor forest was ordered to drive out all game from the disafforested areas into the remaining forest within the next forty days . |
| 23 | Although the company was planning to record interviews with Mr Major , Mr Kinnock and Mr Ashdown for a World in Action special they were to be made in a central London hotel some distance away . |
| 24 | If they were to be overthrown , the justification would have to be overwhelming . |
| 25 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 26 | They were to be guided by ‘ Christ within' . |
| 27 | The class spent considerable time examining these photographs , attempting to anticipate the kind of personalities they were to be working with . |
| 28 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 29 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 30 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |