Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad had left slightly more money than expected , and that money was to be divided equally between Nathan , Georgia and Rona , Rona 's share to be held in trust until she attained the age of eighteen . |
| 2 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 3 | He declared that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid and that vengeance was to be taken against his clan . |
| 4 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 5 | The 1949 Act established four goals for the national parks : ( 1 ) the characteristic landscape beauty was to be strictly preserved ; ( 2 ) there was to be access and facilities for public open-air enjoyment ; ( 3 ) wildlife and buildings and places of architectural and historic interest were to be suitably protected ; and ( 4 ) established farming use was to be effectively maintained . |
| 6 | Fascism resulted from the frustration with , and alienation from , a system in which politicians were obsessed with the conventions of party politics to the detriment of the need for radical change ( highlighted by the First World War ) ; and radical change was vital if Britain 's accelerated economic and political decline was to be reversed . |
| 7 | If effective civil and political citizenship were to be enjoyed in Britain , then the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government and the extraordinarily clumsy device of having to appeal for the protection of his or her rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 8 | Hard work was to be accompanied by moral instruction and each convict was to be treated to a series of discussions with a qualified counsellor . |
| 9 | As agreed in December 1989 and June 1990 an intergovernmental conference on economic and monetary union was to be held on Dec. 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37131 ; 37520 ] . |
| 10 | The message to emerge from this conference was one of liberation , from both spiritual and material bondage , and this liberation was to be achieved by the participation in the whole life of the church , not just church services . |
| 11 | One well informed historian of the period believes that the Cabinet was in favour of retaining the death penalty by a majority of eleven to five , and this estimate was to be borne out in a vote in the Commons the following April . |
| 12 | He had given some of the more frank and open-minded advice on the future of the industry before nationalisation , and his critical and constructive approach and blend of engineering and commercial experience were to be a valuable input to Central Authority discussions . |
| 13 | Political thought and social behaviour were to be scrutinised for signs of excessive westernisation by cadres in educational institutions , workplaces and homes . |
| 14 | The Patrimony of St Peter had been restored and even enlarged , and papal control was to be extended even further before Innocent 's death . |
| 15 | Flanders , at the beginning of the war , was still the principal manufacturer of cloth made from English wool , although from the mid-fourteenth century more and more cloth was to be made in England . |
| 16 | The ‘ new pathway ’ was to emphasise basic concepts rather than facts , topics were to be integrated , and clinical contact was to be introduced early . |
| 17 | In an Amazonomachy by Mikon in the Stoa Poikile at Athens was a notorious figure named Butes of whom only the helmet and one eye were to be seen , and there are less dramatic examples in some Amazons on the vase ( fig. 116 ) . |
| 18 | It was different from previous work in that main roads were to be included ; public transport as well as walking and cycling were to be considered ; and particular importance was to be attached to the attempt to lower costs and achieve area-wide benefits by applying fewer and simpler measures . |
| 19 | Church and State were to be separated , local government democratized , and a Constituent Assembly elected by universal , direct , equal and secret franchise was to be summoned to settle the future form of the country 's constitution and to resolve major social problems such as that of the land . |
| 20 | It would be delightful if this pessimistic and disappointed paragraph were to be proved false by subsequent activities . |
| 21 | Collective w worship and religious education were to be compulsory in all county schools . |
| 22 | Workshops were established in Isfahan , Kashan and Tabriz , and for several decades Persia was the most important and influential centre of artistic excellence and learning in the East — comparable to Renaissance Italy in the West — whose most profound and abiding expression was to be found in the carpets it produced . |