Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 2 | Most of Gould 's collecting in Van Diemen 's Land , however , was done within 80 miles of Hobart , on or around the Derwent River and the fertile Macquairie Plains , where kingfishers , water crakes and crow-shrikes , golden plovers and white-fronted herons , bitterns and black-backed porphyrios were to be found in glorious profusion . |
| 3 | Impartible and partible inheritance customs co-existed side by side , and marked variations were to be found in the degree to which elder and younger children were favoured or disadvantaged . |
| 4 | Education , publishing and cultural links were to be developed , and China had agreed to develop traffic on the Great Silk Route . |
| 5 | Under the agreement , government and parastatal loans were to be repaid over a 20-year period with a three-year grace period , while commercial debts would become payable over 15 years with an eight-year grace period . |
| 6 | A critical element in these surveys was that data for past and future plans were to be presented at constant prices , as it was almost impossible to interpret a time series of expenditure for a period in which prices fluctuated significantly . |
| 7 | The role of the Task Force , as specified by the Prime Minister 's Office , was essentially a strategic vision : broad issues were to be raised ; the direction of any additional expenditure was to be stipulated ; and longer-term policies were to be highlighted . |
| 8 | In the Sandys doctrine their roles were reversed : primacy was to be given to the nuclear weapon , and conventional forces were to be reduced to a supporting role . |
| 9 | Ice creams and soft drinks were to be served . |
| 10 | Observation posts were established by UNCOK and important reports were to be forwarded in June 1950 , as will be seen in chapter 7 . |
| 11 | Nonpaying peasants were to be arrested in minimal numbers , and only millers were to be imprisoned . |
| 12 | Artisans and small traders were to be allowed to perform individual services from their homes , from shops or by street vending , provided they had a trading licence and a medical card . |
| 13 | Official funding would be made available for party political broadcasts and electoral rolls were to be updated . |
| 14 | In addition , arrangements were made to reinforce the party 's regional councils ; and three-year grants were to be paid from the general election fund to enable constituency parties to employ full-time agents . |
| 15 | Lloyd George became convinced that if need due to ill-health and other contingencies were to be met by cash benefits , as he believed that it should , the only financially and politically feasible means was the establishment of contributory insurance . |
| 16 | Russia was later to exploit her mineral advantages and other countries were to be linked to this mass of industrial power as was , for example , Sweden as a supplier of iron ore , but heavy industry was in 1880 mainly concentrated in western Europe . |
| 17 | A number of cases have dealt with the valuation of fittings attached to or used in connection with land , whether freehold or leasehold , and associated products and machinery , whether in farms , public houses or factories : see : ( 1 ) for a farming example , Leeds v Burrows ( 1810 ) 12 East 1 , where the value of the outgoing tenant 's hay and a " spike-roll " had to be assessed ; ( 2 ) for a public house , Smith v Peters ( 1875 ) 2O LR Eq 511 , where the household furniture , fixtures and other effects were to be valued ; and ( 3 ) for a factory , Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 , where there was a small company carrying on a family business of manufacturing and retailing woollen goods , and there needed to be a valuation of the premises and the machinery . |
| 18 | Thus , for the moment , foreign policy and other issues were to be neglected while economic policy took precedence . |
| 19 | He was co-author of the declaration of Philadelphia of 1945 which set postwar goals for the ILO , and affirmed that economic and financial policies were to be judged by their contribution to social justice . |
| 20 | The probation service and voluntary agencies were to be funded to provide an alternative form of punishment for the less serious offender . |
| 21 | The government decreed that land was to remain the property of the landlords , that peasants were to remain subject to communal organizations ( which reduced the likelihood that they might turn into entrepreneurs ) , that the gentry would continue to exercise police duties in the countryside , and that state and local taxes were to be paid as before . |
| 22 | Elections to the Chamber of Districts and local elections were to be held by Feb. 7 , 1993 . |