Example sentences of "was to be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 2 | In 1279 Pecham had ordered the general cursing of a wide range of malefactors against the church ; this was to be pronounced four times a year in each parish church with solemn ritual . |
| 3 | An upper house representing regional leaders was to be created two years after independence . |
| 4 | He was to be given two weeks salary for each year of service . |
| 5 | The man was to be given 3000 s. morlaas and the seneschal of Gascony was to constrain Arnaud-Raymond 's heirs to implement his wishes . |
| 6 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 7 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 8 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 9 | To do this the Germans had divided the Verdun front into a number of very small sectors , each of which was to be patrolled twenty-four hours a day by two planes . |
| 10 | Despite his busy schedule , he made time to visit the conference ‘ Geordie night ’ — a gathering of north eastern MPs and activists — and was to be found one evening at the Brighton Trade Union and Labour Club with his friend Michael Elliot , a political comedian with whom he toured the coalfields during the 1984-85 pits strike . |