Example sentences of "in [noun] was [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 Now , by a quirk of history , the machinery for carrying out such schemes of training in drama was not to be found in normal educational administration , but in the huge network of social services administered by the National Council of Social Services , a voluntary body financed by Carnegie Trust which since 1919 had co-ordinated the work of various national organisations such as the Village Drama Society , County Rural Community Councils , British Drama League , the Federation of Women 's Institutes , the National Association of Boys ' Clubs , Townswomen 's Guilds , the Workers ' Educational Association , County Youth Committees , the Standing Conference of Drama Associations and Hull University 's Extra-Mural Department , the only university to take interest in Community Drama .
2 At the beginning of the 37th general congregation Archbishop Felici announced an alteration in the rules governing secrecy : from now on it was permissible to reveal what was said in debates in the Council , though discussion in commissions was still to be kept from journalists .
3 A postgraduate Certificate in Education was about to be introduced .
4 Officer conspirators were working on their sergeants by offers of land and release from the army — a reduction in service was later to be the standard inducement to mutiny offered by generals to their troops .
5 His undoubted personal success in the 1920s in Birmingham was not to be repeated in the 1930s , as fascism made less impact there than in the East End of London or the north-west .
6 Six months later , in June 1951 , after de Lattre had halted the Vietminh offensive in Tonkin and with the immediate threat removed , Heath reported from Saigon that the current phase in Indo-China was now to be seen as a holding operation .
7 The link with parliamentary politics was effective in both directions , however , and a collector who openly opposed the political interest of the politician in control of the parliamentary seat was unlikely to retain his own position beyond the next meeting of the commission of supply , unless of course the political interest in power was about to be destroyed .
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