Example sentences of "[was/were] to [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a heady essay written over thirty years ago , Giorgio de Santillana argued that some of the key ideas of the Scientific Renaissance were to be traced to developments in the arts . |
| 2 | Two thousand Cornishmen , it had been planned , were to be rushed to the defence of Plymouth , the most likely invasion point . |
| 3 | Of the two assessors , as they were to be referred to , Samuel Angell ( 1800–66 ) was the better known . |
| 4 | An advertisement was put out requesting that no relief be given to beggars ; the really needy were to be referred to Mr. Chapman at the House of Industry . |
| 5 | The President of the Local Government Board , George Goschen , issued a memorandum urging that wherever possible out-door relief should be cut back ; ‘ deserving ’ applicants for relief were to be referred to charities , the ‘ undeserving ’ to be placed in workhouses . |
| 6 | In the final resort matters in disagreement were to be referred to the Shipping Controller , though his decision was not binding unless agreed by both sides . |
| 7 | A recent example of the first category appeared in a contract for the construction of offshore oil exploration facilities in the North Seatechnical disputes about whether the work or the facilities complied with the contract were to be referred to an expert . |
| 8 | The headnote in the Weekly Law Reports is wrong : it states that the lease provided that disputes were to be referred to arbitration , whereas in fact the lease between Ipswich and Fisons said that if Fisons did not accept Ipswich 's terms the matter should be referred to an independent expert . |
| 9 | Under the new constitution , four of the five autonomous oblasti ( regions ) in the Russian Federation were to be upgraded to the status of republic ( Adygey , Gorny Altai , Karachai-Circassia and Khakassia ) , making 20 in all . |
| 10 | Two Germans were arrested in Bangkok in June and were to be extradited to Germany to face charges relating to Sonntag 's murder . |
| 11 | Could you tell me what is the policy of your party on this matter and if you were to be elected to power at the next election what would your party do ? |
| 12 | I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 13 | Surplus junior posts were to be converted to consultant posts , with additional service work being met by the new staff grade and a small increase in the number of senior house officers . |
| 14 | A proportion was to be allotted to the fifteen forest townships in lieu of their rights of common , and the remainder , as Crown lands , were to be leased to the king 's creditors . |
| 15 | The Council wished to borrow £55,000 to pay for their construction , and the tramways were to be leased to the B.E.T . |
| 16 | If the air-base were to be likened to a hive , then he was a drone rather than a worker . |
| 17 | If anyone else did so , his horses and dogs were to be forfeited to the contributaries , and he was to pay an amercement to the king . |
| 18 | From a narrow accounting point of view , the significant change was that they were to be geared to the introduction of patient ‘ case-mix planning and costing ’ . |
| 19 | No one was henceforth to suffer death or mutilation for taking the king 's deer : the penalties were to be limited to amercement , imprisonment or exile . |
| 20 | Under the plan there were to be changes in public finance policy ; budget deficits were to be limited to 10 per cent of total revenue ; government bonds were to be issued on the Muscat securities market to replace dependence on foreign borrowing ; the state general reserve fund was to be strengthened by a transfer of oil revenues ; a contingency fund was to be created to " cope with any international or domestic variables " ; and privatization of selected assets was to go ahead . |
| 21 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 22 | Preliminary drafts of a bill repealing the Group Areas Act had been completed and were to be presented to the Cabinet in mid-January . |
| 23 | Having shaken hands with the dignitaries she moved to the quartet of golf professionals who were to be presented to her — Manuel Cabálleros , Gerhard Bugner , Des O'Grady and Andy Kyle . |
| 24 | The payments were to be made to teachers with additional responsibilities ; to outstanding teachers ; to those teaching in shortage subjects ; and for teachers taking posts that were difficult to fill . |
| 25 | Ecclesiastical canons now required royal sanction , all proceeds from the taxes of annates and tenths were annexed to the crown , and final appeals against judgments in the ecclesiastical courts were to be made to the king in the court of Chancery . |
| 26 | In contrast , when , in the same month , three terrorists were charged with conspiracy to murder Tom King , former Secretary for Northern Ireland , armed not with weapons but with a magazine article on sniping , it was announced in mid-trial that significant changes were to be made to a suspect 's right to silence . |
| 27 | The Official Secrets Act was to be amended to allow freedom of information , and changes were to be made to the postal service to protect privacy . |
| 28 | If speed reducing measures such as humps were to be applied to other residential roads , then all manner of surface treatments for safety and environmental improvement — including shared spaces where appropriate — become feasible . |
| 29 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 30 | To this statement Paschal added a series of directions to Anselm showing in detail how the decrees were to be applied to parochial churches and to ecclesiastical land held by lay service . |