Example sentences of "[adj] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French were to be excluded from offices in Scotland — and Scottish noblemen must reject French pensions . |
| 2 | In comprehensive schools , all the British were to be treated the same , despite the obvious differences between us of sex , class , culture , ability , religion , race , and so on . |
| 3 | Basic unemployment benefits were reduced , while other supplementary benefits for unemployed people , for single parents and for the sick were to be subjected to means testing . |
| 4 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 5 | Each Authority was to fix the fares in its own area and receipts taken on the section concerned were to be divided equally between the L.C.C . |
| 6 | The communiqué issued after the talks with Latvia said that the troops concerned were to be regarded as " foreign military forces " leaving " another sovereign state " , and the schedule for departure was to be established with regard for the national security of the states and the welfare of military personnel . |
| 7 | An advertisement was put out requesting that no relief be given to beggars ; the really needy were to be referred to Mr. Chapman at the House of Industry . |
| 8 | It was decreed that they were all to be suspended from their duties : commissioners were to hear complaints against them , and those found guilty were to be permanently removed from office . |
| 9 | Various such measures were enacted in the years prior to 1867 , though the most notable were to be enacted in the remaining decades of the century . |
| 10 | France , he said , must insist on exact compliance with consultation provisions and ‘ if the Vietnamese were to be allowed from the start to negotiate and sign international treaties without full prior consultation and approval the foundation and future of the French Union would be in peril . ’ |
| 11 | d's appeal dismissed on the grounds the documents which the medical examiner considered relevant were to be disclosed , but indiscriminate disclosure of all the records would threaten the confidentiality of p , without securing any benefit to d . |
| 12 | If anything permanent were to be achieved , it should have been done under Rufus . |
| 13 | Hence the old , the young , the sick and the mad were to be separated , and within each group those of better behaviour were to be rewarded with better diets or more ‘ comforts ’ . |