Example sentences of "[det] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That afternoon was to be no exception . |
| 7 | I was ready to do my part but I wanted freedom to choose what that part was to be . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This grant was to be Edward 's final contribution to his brother 's northern empire . |
| 11 | This grant was to be Edward 's final contribution to his brother 's northern empire . |
| 12 | The threat of resistance being offered if some change were to be initiated may be enough to maintain the status quo . |
| 13 | The basis of this liability was to be found in an implied term in the lorry driver 's employment contract to indemnify Romford for loss caused by his — the employee 's — negligence . |
| 14 | This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture . |
| 15 | Another referendum was to be held on June 7 over the new constitution . |
| 16 | He mentioned that great charges and costs had been incurred by the works far above any returns , Some course was to be made for the maintenance of the workmen if the mines were as worn out as the Germans pretended . |
| 17 | This hope was to be realised within the next three decades . |
| 18 | Some taxes were to be increased , the government would be freed of its obligation to buy Argentinian goods and services , and some barriers to foreign investment were removed . |
| 19 | Since French troops had been removed from their positions on the Somme to bolster their imperilled comrades at Verdun , this offensive was to be undertaken largely by British troops . |
| 20 | Encouragement in this direction was to be provided by tax incentives and state-subsidized research and development . |
| 21 | If this decision were to be upheld , the appellants stand to lose their liberty and , in my judgment , it would not be right that such a result should occur when the evidence is excluded only on the basis of the rather stricter rules laid down in Ladd v. Marshall . |
| 22 | This response was to be expected . |
| 23 | This money was to be handed out to things from athletic clubs and the poor of the South Teheran slums to encourage them to demonstrate in favour of the Shah . |
| 24 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 25 | The disagreement was about how this decentralization was to be explained . |
| 26 | Nonsuiting the plaintiff , Lord Kenyon C.J. said , ‘ If this action was to be supported , it would materially affect the navigation of this kingdom . |
| 27 | For example , some crime was to be committed which would bring upon the Old Navigator , as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him , the spectral persecution … and his own wanderings . |
| 28 | If some oversight were to be established there , then much greater attention would need to be paid to foreign experience . |
| 29 | The punishment for this crime was to be docked his best wave , so his tally would be reduced to three against the other surfers ' four . |
| 30 | Two-thirds of this gap was to be refunded to the UK . |