Example sentences of "[noun pl] was to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be named in Red Channels was to be unemployable … unless you cleared yourself by making a voluntary appearance before the House Committee or McCarthy 's Sub-Committee as a ‘ friendly witness ’ who shopped his former friends to prove the ‘ sincerity ’ of his repentance . |
| 2 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 3 | The term of office of the commissioners was to be six years : it would be staggered , with one-third retiring every two years , so as to provide some degree of continuity and collective memory . |
| 4 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 5 | The social fund was significant for three main reasons : it replaced individual rights based on regulations with discretion which was to be applied by social fund officers ; the budget for social fund payments was to be cash-limited ; and most payments would be in the form of loans rather than grants . |
| 6 | Francis Hawkins was to rise to effective second-in-command of the BUF after 1936 and the impact of the ex-British Fascist members was to be significant in the organization and administration of the movement . |
| 7 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 8 | The confining of political rights , and most political activity , to men was to be characteristic of all official politics , including democratic politics , until about one hundred years ago . |
| 9 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 10 | Do you want t well yes , County Council criteria was to be acceptable in respect of the provisions of essential infrastructure , particularly surface water and foul drainage and water supply . |
| 11 | The livery for trams was to be red and cream similar to the L.C.C . |
| 12 | Er , based on the evidence which the public consultation produced the Committee considered that the primary concern of consumers was to be able to identify when a gene likely to be a cause of concern to a significant proportion of the population was present in foodstuff . |
| 13 | As an impetus to privatization , money to buy shares in enterprises was to be tax-exempt . |