Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 2 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 3 | These funds were only to be disbursed when the compact agreement had been signed . |
| 4 | The publicists , popularisers and ideologists were now to be found throughout the western world and wherever there was a local elite attracted by ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 5 | Children , too , were rather expected to play , and to play quietly , behind the house no balls or tin trumpets were ever to be left on the gravel sweep . |
| 6 | An electoral code and a charter for political parties were also to be discussed . |
| 7 | An understanding monarch reflected that disobedient and violent subjects were also to be found much closer to home . |
| 8 | Whole peoples were now to be regenerated , not by the patient labours of obscure administrators toiling at their life 's work in obscure places , but by the brilliant schemes of brilliant people flitting about the corridors of power . |
| 9 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 10 | The first meeting of the Governors was held on 12th August 1881 and the seven present decided to appoint Mr. Edward Walmsley to the Chair before proceeding to make arrangements for a Clerk , to deal with the accounts ( for which proper books were now to be kept ) , and to inspect the Deeds of the School with the Town Clerk . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember them all now , but I know that no speaking was allowed in the class-rooms , corridors or on the stairs ; no running anywhere indoors ; no borrowing of any kind ; all long hair had to be plaited ; indoor shoes were never to be worn outside , nor outdoor shoes inside , and there were specific shoes for games , gym , hockey and so on ; school uniform was strictly enforced , and hats compulsory . |
| 12 | In the early 1950s an English visitor to Russia observed that beggars were still to be found around the terminals of Moscow , ‘ often young men with one or more limbs missing ’ . |
| 13 | Bodily functions were never to be acknowledged . |
| 14 | Juries were to deal with serious criminal cases , elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases , and trials were henceforth to be held in public . |
| 15 | There were peoples in the empire — the Masai , pre-eminently , were one , and the Bedouin Arabs were shortly to be another — who seemed instinctively to possess the right combination of self-respect and pragmatic acceptance of the facts of British power . |
| 16 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 17 | In Five Easy Pieces , the biographical elements were there to be discovered , slightly falsified , perhaps , and for those who did not notice them , Nicholson made a point of mentioning them in interviews . |
| 18 | The miners were originally to be moved on 8 January 1990 . |
| 19 | Many large gardens were still to be seen , even in the centre of the town . |
| 20 | Concession to operate coal mines , oil fields , federal highways and three railway lines were also to be auctioned . |
| 21 | Although Futurism succumbed to the ravages of the First World War and its surviving adherents were later to be put to flight by Mussolini , many of its observations and its leading artists , such as Severini , Picabia , Boccioni and Balla continue to inspire the main stream of modern art . |
| 22 | On such mighty systems as these the stations were clearly to be places of great importance . |
| 23 | After 1932 it was not until 1937 that three million working days were again to be lost in industrial disputes , compared with 162 million days in 1926 and an average of 24 million days per year between 1918 and 1926 . |
| 24 | Buyers were nowhere to be seen . |
| 25 | One thousand Turkish troops were also to be stationed at Silopi as part of the operation . |
| 26 | For the time being , the dogs were still to be kept separate at night , when left at home alone , or unsupervised . |
| 27 | Two other commissions were also to be established to deal with border problems such as drug trafficking , smuggling , illegal emigration and guerrilla attacks . |
| 28 | Most of the increased expenditure of DM20,100 million under the supplementary budget was to cover social insurance payments and economic restructuring in East Germany ( unification costs were also to be covered by the German Unity Fund — see p. 37467 ) . |
| 29 | But the big processions of previous years were nowhere to be seen — or heard — in our town . |
| 30 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |