Sentence examples for were to pose from inspiring English sources

Thirty infants were to pose naked on a twelve-foot-wide "seemless sheet".

Since then the porch, where the Lady and her guest were to pose, has had a fresh lick of paint.

Miss Maidan was having new scene arranged, in which the 5 young ladies were to pose, warmly dressed, in set consisting of fire hydrant, lamp post, and house painted on back drop.

But what if one of his children — let's say, the 16 year-old Edward, whom Dickens shipped off to Australia and never saw again, because he was difficult and seemed ill-suited for a career in London — were to pose the Hemingway question: which do you think is more important, the stories or the people?

In the Critique of Pure Reason, he says: "If anyone were to pose the question to me: What is the constitution of a thing that thinks?

As cover stories, they were to pose as foreign workers from a number of countries.

One way of avoiding this is to pose counterfactual questions.

My stock reply is to pose them Three Switches puzzle.

In Japan Society's festival, Ms. Shioya's desire was to pose some questions: What is Butoh?

(It's actually a decent question, as disingenuous as Trump was to pose it).

Cameron's aim, it seems, was to pose with Nicolas Sarkozy as a liberator.