Example sentences of "[det] [noun] there [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year there were to be no festivities , however meagre . |
| 2 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
| 3 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 4 | At each stage there was to be a reshuffle of cars in depôts , so that the worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first and the better cars from a depôt closing were moved to another one . |
| 5 | In both periods there was to be a 5 per cent increase in the Christmas bonus ; the working week would be reduced from 37 to 36 hours . |