Example sentences of "[noun pl] were to be [vb pp] as " in BNC.

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1 Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ .
2 These aims were to be used as a checklist to test curriculum policies .
3 The Enterprise Centre this year commences evaluation of this process ; students and module leaders were to be interviewed as part of this evaluation .
4 Even so , all developments were to be costed as if the NHS would be the sole funding agent and that no local authority or housing corporation money would come in .
5 The Games were to be used as what Mandell calls ‘ The Nazi Olympics ’ , a spectacle to underscore the supposed physical and intellectual superiority of the Aryan race .
6 Hence dropouts were to be accepted as a fact of life and the curriculum designed particularly with the needs of higher levels in mind .
7 There was speculation that the warheads were to be used as models for Iranian production of similar armaments , since Iran did not have the codes which were necessary to fire them .
8 The Foreign Ministry announced on May 16 , 1990 , that 20 Bulgarian embassies ( mostly in Africa and Latin America ) and six trade missions were to be closed as a cost-cutting exercise , although diplomatic relations would be unaffected .
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