Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were that the maximum speed of flights was to be reduced from 835 kmph to 778 kmph and that the amount of time permitted at the lowest level of 75 metres was to be cut from 28 to 15 minutes , with the rest of the flight being made at no lower than 150 metres . |
| 2 | International Literacy Year 1990 , whose programme of activities was to be co-ordinated by UNESCO [ for its announcement in 1987 see p. 35925 ] , was launched on Dec. 6 , 1989 . |
| 3 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |
| 4 | A whole range of styles was to be recycled into a sort of architectural digest of Italianate Gothic , Romanesque , ‘ Queen Anne ’ , and Venetian . |
| 5 | There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ? |
| 6 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 7 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 8 | A fifth round of talks was to be held in Seoul on Dec. 10-13 " to finalize the text " of the agreement , according to a joint communiqué on Oct. 24 . |
| 9 | There was considerable confusion as to whether the relief of widows was to be considered independently of either their late husbands ' failure to provide for them , or of the needs of their children . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The clue to the ambitions of the ASEA is to be found in the plea that the training of youths was to be ‘ a continuance of their education ’ , and an aspect of the committees ' work that ‘ should ever be borne in mind ’ . |
| 12 | The number of foresters was to be limited under the supervision of the regarders : no warden or local Forest officer was to hold pleas of the forest , which were reserved for the Forest Eyre . |
| 13 | Firms within enterprise zones were also exempt from industrial training-board levies — hardly a massive concession , since the number of boards was to be substantially reduced throughout the 1980s . |
| 14 | They served up to the public a version of events and only those , like Dexter , who were privy to the truth would be able to distinguish how close that version of events was to reality . |
| 15 | The 70-member House of Representatives was to be elected every five years by universal suffrage under the communal system ( with elections expected to be held early in 1991 ) . |