Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 4 | Twenty in each university were to be taught modern history and languages and , if they reached the required standard , given suitable employment at home or abroad . |
| 5 | In Germany the support of the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) was needed if the required two-thirds majority were to be gained in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) , and if the treaty were to be passed by the Bundesrat ( upper house ) where the SPD held control . |
| 6 | All surrendering Yugoslav armed groups were to be disarmed and interned pending a decision by Governments as to their disposal . |
| 7 | Day 15 Received an order for another 200 chairs at a price of £50 each payment was to be on the basis of cash on delivery . |
| 8 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 9 | Consistent with his medico-chemical interests was his Edinburgh MD thesis ‘ On the theory of Chemical Combination ’ ( 1861 ) , in which he proposed a new way to represent chemical constitution : each atom was to be indicated by the chemical symbol for the element concerned , bonds between atoms being symbolized by lines . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Under the terms of the Pretoria Minute , all political prisoners were to be released by April 30 but the deadline had passed with more than 1,000 people with claims to political prisoner status still in custody , according to the group Lawyers for Human Rights . |
| 12 | That afternoon was to be no exception . |
| 13 | I was ready to do my part but I wanted freedom to choose what that part was to be . |
| 14 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 15 | The number of seats in the European Parliament was to be increased from 518 to 567 to take account of German unification . |
| 16 | Her ample talents were to be revealed by a prop man with a hook and fishing line , standing just out of shot . |
| 17 | There is plenty of material about Jacobite activity from those hostile to a Stuart restoration , but since this was a time when immense political advantage was to be gained by tarnishing one 's opponents with the stigma of loyalty to the exiled royal family , such sources must be treated with immense scepticism . |
| 18 | The interim coalition was to be led by a Prime Minister drawn from outside the main parties , and Lukanov 's government was to stay in office until the new government was formed . |
| 19 | Both the surviving brothers were to be linked with Gloucester in the 1470S , and Thomas ( together with Milewater ) was specifically described at the time of his death as Gloucester 's esquire . |
| 20 | Both the surviving brothers were to be linked with Gloucester in the 1470S , and Thomas ( together with Milewater ) was specifically described at the time of his death as Gloucester 's esquire . |
| 21 | His greatest ambition was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 22 | The courts upheld the method adopted and rejected both the alternatives suggested , the first because the shareholders were not ‘ part owners of the undertaking ’ and the second because the regulation implied that each holding was to be separately valued . |
| 23 | Both sides won 11 matches — more than the total achieved by five of the previous six champion counties — but a revealing figure was to be found among the bonus points , where Essex harvested 11 more in the batting column . |
| 24 | If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act . |
| 25 | An official Israeli statement on Feb. 9 emphasized that the Lebanese army had to prevent any further attacks emanating from this area if Israeli reprisals were to be avoided . |
| 26 | From this type of starting-point the SDPP expected two things to flow , namely the capturing of a long-term vision within which short-term goals were to be set and , second , a relief in teacher stress . |
| 27 | Free speech and free political association were to be backed by an extension of the franchise to all adults over the age of 20 , a formal extension of the power of the elected legislature ( the Diet ) and guarantees of judicial independence from both the executive and the Diet . |
| 28 | On occasion arrangements would be made between governments , such as in the period 1632–47 when England and Spain agreed that large amounts of Spanish silver were to be coined at the mint of London , accounting for a high proportion of its output . |
| 29 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 30 | Under the terms of the Constitution the PCT was the sole legal political organization ; appropriate amendments and draft legislation on the creation of political parties were to be prepared by a presidential commission . |