Example sentences of "the [noun pl] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome of the projects was to be examined in the light of potential impacts on urban development , transport road safety and the environment . |
| 2 | One of the roads was to be called Hawes Close after the name given to the area of land since the 17th century . |
| 3 | The ‘ sale ’ of the King by the Scots was to be likened in the hagiography to that of Christ by Judas Iscariot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Timing of the airdrops was to be determined by the defence department in co-operation with the United Nations , the president said in a written statement . |
| 6 | The linen on the beds was to be changed once in fourteen days , and there were to be three blankets and one quilt to each bed . |
| 7 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 8 | Inspection and servicing of each of the platforms was to be carried out in the survey ship 's main docking bay . |
| 9 | Legislation to implement the reforms was to be presented to Legco in early 1993 . |
| 10 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 11 | Vilification of the character of the Carthaginians was to be found in the Sicilian-born historian Timaeus even before some Roman orators and writers made " Punica fides " into a catchword . |
| 12 | Any quantity of sugar that the matron thought , reasonable for the patients was to be provided ; lump sugar was to be allowed to the house surgeon , matron and pupil . |
| 13 | We owe much to the Annales Cambriæ , for example , and would gladly know more of whatever lay behind the Norman chronicler William of Jumièges ' statement that shortly before his conquest of England Swegen visited Rouen and agreed with Duke Richard II that booty taken by the Danes was to be sold through the Normans , who would provide a refuge where wounded men could recuperate . |
| 14 | For instance , in Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , the sale and purchase agreement said that a sales statement prepared by the purchasers was to be reviewed by the vendors ' and the purchasers ' accountants . |
| 15 | The soil for the embankments was to be dug out from ‘ ecologically poor ’ land close by . |
| 16 | But in much of the rest of the world , the extension of the railways was to be a characteristic of the period from 1890 to the 1920s . |
| 17 | The administration of the Services was to be carried out by three co-located but separate Service Departments , each under a junior minister . |
| 18 | We found the key to good working relationships among the adults was to be found in the notion of school cultures . |
| 19 | The breakfast hour of the nurses was to be regulated by the house surgeon . |
| 20 | Asquith , meanwhile , recognized the necessity for some social legislation if the problem of the Lords was to be solved by another victorious general election for the Liberals . |
| 21 | The pressure of the streets was to be of decisive importance in the liberal revolution of 1820 , when it was organized by the secret societies . |
| 22 | Murr escaped an assassination attempt on his way to the March 20 Cabinet meeting where the plan to disband the militias was to be approved . |
| 23 | 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 . |