Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [was/were] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle that education was to be open to all , irrespective of means ; public galleries and museums should be open to all , the National Health Service likewise . |
| 2 | The deadline set for this was 1990 , a simple majority vote of the borough council being sufficient to ensure separation ; neither parents nor governors were to be involved in the decision . |
| 3 | The country 's draft National Forestry Action Plan , drawn up with the help of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , concluded that if Indonesia was to be self-sufficient in wood for its burgeoning paper industry , new pulpwood plantations would have to be developed . |
| 4 | Ideally , the roles of husband and wife were to be complementary , the husband earning the wage and the wife acting as ‘ chancellor of the family exchequer ’ and spending it wisely . |
| 5 | Diplomatic representatives were to reside in Edo , and trade was to be free of official intervention , with more ports due to be opened in future years . |
| 6 | It was the British proposals which , as much as anything , stalled Scandinavian discussions on a Nordic common market , for if Britain was to be fortunate in its attempt to forge something beyond the Europe of the Six , the Nordic states would have little choice other than to follow the British lead . |
| 7 | It seemed to her that if love was to be great it had to be paid for with a terrible price . |
| 8 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 9 | Chapter and verse were to be forthcoming when the deal was settled . |
| 10 | That scepticism and memory were to be important when he became an archbishop and was expected to be a leader in the organization . |
| 11 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 12 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |