Example sentences of "were [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published .
2 By the tenth century slaves were rarely to be found in France or Germany ; they were a minority , though still a substantial minority , in England ; they were still common in southern Europe ( see pp. 84–6 ) .
3 Owners of lands in the forests were henceforth to be allowed to bring them into cultivation and to make mills , fishponds and other constructions outside the covert , to agist their pigs in their woods at their pleasure , and to have all the eyries and honey in them .
4 If production and exchange were henceforth to be determined by those who produce and consume , what functions would their former controllers then perform ?
5 Juries were to deal with serious criminal cases , elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases , and trials were henceforth to be held in public .
6 After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville .
7 The President and the Assembly of the Republic ( formerly the National Assembly ) were henceforth to be elected directly by universal suffrage and secret ballot .
8 The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain .
9 It accepted that public spending should be used counter-cyclically after the war , but private firms were merely to be exhorted to plan their spending to iron out booms and slumps , and there was no mention of the thorny question of anti-trust policy .
10 Subsistence pensions , at 40s 0d for a married couple or 24s 0d for a single person , were only to be attained after twenty years of slowly rising rates .
11 But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent .
12 Funding and subsidy schemes were only to be allowed provided they were open to all artists in the Community .
13 A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State .
14 But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin , and Loos 's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects .
15 Then , great kindness and great love were only to be expected and accepted .
16 Under the Bretton Woods system , exchange rates were only to be changed in the face of fundamental disequilibrium , and GATT was designed to restrict the temptation to raise tariffs .
17 These funds were only to be disbursed when the compact agreement had been signed .
18 Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his .
19 In 1734 , for example , when Campbell of Ardkinglas was faced with a contest in Stirlingshire , this government politician attempted to secure the support of some of the freeholders who were normally to be found in the interest of the Duke of Montrose .
20 It said : ‘ I 'm much criticised for part of a written order under my signature which includes a sentence that the Yugoslavian nationals were not to be told their destination .
21 This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it .
22 However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts .
23 During the propaganda war that was waged between Sandys and the Services , the Air Staff were not to be outdone by the Admiralty .
24 So the field centre and nature trail were not to be .
25 The bishop of Pittsburg officially informed his priests during Holy Week of 1987 that women were not to be included in this ceremony .
26 He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible .
27 The arguments were not to be put in an insulting or irritating way , but calmly and with great moderation .
28 It was greatly taken amiss that they were not to be seen in the bombed vicinities .
29 I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage .
30 Forest dwellers were not to be compelled to attend the swanimotes , nor those who lived outside the forest to attend the Forest Eyre , unless they were accused of an offence , or were sureties for someone else .
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