Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun sg] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private , local and foreign investment in industry was to be encouraged . |
| 2 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
| 3 | The context for this shift in direction was to be found in wider pressures to reduce state spending and , above all , levels of state borrowing to finance such expenditure . |
| 4 | The Commission felt that both elements were necessary if a balanced and effective course in citizenship were to be provided . |
| 5 | This was ratified in an agreement of 20 Feb. 1691 wherein every pound of money in profit was to be shared as indicated in the table below : |
| 6 | The road in question was to be the new North Parade , and — just to be sure — the Trustees wanted permission if necessary to knock down almost the whole of Pig Street and a lot else besides , including : |
| 7 | Making sure that Ryan was already inside , they entered , sat near him , and began a general chat about land , A saying to B , in a casual roundabout fashion , that if he had any land going in Norfolk to unload it quickly because the councils were clamping down on building regulations and that land in future was to be used for agricultural purposes only . ’ |
| 8 | Decisions such as these show that the courts inclined to the view that in a conflict between the common law property right of an individual and the statutory powers of a local authority to interfere with those rights , the benefit of any doubt in statute was to be given to the individual — and that this was particularly so if the statute gave less than full compensation to the individual . |
| 9 | If wages per head had not increased , the share of GDP accounted for by consumption out of wage earnings would have fallen from 52 per cent in 1952 to 31 per cent in 1970 ; this would have required an inconceivable rise in other types of spending ( by capitalists and government ) if the increase in production was to be sold . |
| 10 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |