Sentence examples for were to open from inspiring English sources
adverb
Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Academies were to open in urban areas of disadvantage.
Shortly before the gates were to open, gunfire erupted.
Five Towns College got its name because initial plans were to open it in Lawrence.
A small line had formed outside the museum before the doors were to open.
Two days before polls were to open, Haiti's electoral commission called it off indefinitely.
Others were to open up the market for the new toys of civilised living.
They arrived the morning of the night they were to open and whatever they could play, it certainly wasn't Latin.
So if Apple were to open up iTunes to other portable music players, it would be entirely defeating iTunes' purpose.
If I were to open a place, a bakery a block away, it would have to be different.
Jim Murphy, the shadow defence secretary, said: "If a formal case were to open this would be very serious indeed.
"If someone were to open a gay club in Chinatown here, most people won't go," he said.
