Example sentences of "was to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assistance was to be generally " selective " and " exceptional " , contributing to investment rather than running costs . |
| 2 | This all-enfolding system was to be thoroughly metaphysical and consistently rational . |
| 3 | This was to be jointly owned by twelve area distribution companies , which were to be created to take on the distribution role of the existing twelve area boards . |
| 4 | Departure from St Abbs was to be shortly after sunrise ; spend the whole day and night at sea , return the following morning . |
| 5 | The Jet Provost T.5 in question had just heard that it was to be shortly replaced by the Shorts Tucano and immediately took out its angst on a passing erk . |
| 6 | The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed . |
| 7 | The birth of science , and its bitterest pill , the Darwinian Theory of Evolution , was to be oddly influenced by Indonesia , and can be partly traced through the subtle relationship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace , which recent evidence strongly suggests produced not only one of the most revolutionary achievements in the history of science but also one of its most intriguing deceptions . |
| 8 | Repayment was to be over 10 years , with a six-year grace period . |
| 9 | The sociology of knowledge was deemed to have a role in grasping the social basis of knowledge but this task was to be clearly distinguished from any comment on the validity of knowledge . |
| 10 | Suppose you and I were playing against each other , and suppose we both knew that the number of rounds in the game was to be exactly 100 . |
| 11 | Louis Tobback , Interior , Modernization of Public Services and National Scientific and Cultural Institutions Minister , announced on May 7 , 1990 , that the state security system , which he described as " useless " , was to be drastically reformed [ for setting up in June 1988 of investigation into gendarmerie see p. 36775 ] . |
| 12 | The rouble trade was to be drastically reduced in 1990 in order to turn the 1989 surplus into the equivalent of a $500,000,000 dollar deficit . |
| 13 | He was to be hugely admired on the classical stage by Sir Laurence Olivier , John Neville , Sir John Gielgud and Sir Peter Hall , loved on film by Humphrey Bogart , Clint Eastwood , John Huston , Mike Nichols . |
| 14 | The leisure and recreational movements generated from the grassroots or from the concerned philanthropist looking down from on high were to give way to a cultural and economic popularism which was to be progressively constructed by the new generation of market-orientated professionals . |
| 15 | The God of the Bible and the Church was to be wholly free from all these . |
| 16 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 17 | Japan 's flight from her Eden was to be astonishingly swift . |
| 18 | EFTA was to be just a free trade area ; as such , there was no agreement on barriers being set against third parties . |
| 19 | He was to be frequently found at various ‘ gigs ’ with his Buckskin Boys — a square-dance group of three , of which he was the leader . |
| 20 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 21 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 22 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 23 | The 1949 Act established four goals for the national parks : ( 1 ) the characteristic landscape beauty was to be strictly preserved ; ( 2 ) there was to be access and facilities for public open-air enjoyment ; ( 3 ) wildlife and buildings and places of architectural and historic interest were to be suitably protected ; and ( 4 ) established farming use was to be effectively maintained . |
| 24 | Immigration from the mainland was to be strictly controlled while Macao 's entertainment industry , centred around gambling casinos , was to be preserved as a major support to the territory 's economy . |
| 25 | This station was not to survive , but its influence was to be extensively felt . |
| 26 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 27 | Ashton in Lancashire , and urged Manager Ronnie Rooke to sign him — there was to be no doubting the quality of Mr Slade 's judgement on this occasion , as Palace fans of the early 1950s will agree . |
| 28 | There was to be no paddling around in the shallow waters for this man , Ruth thought . |
| 29 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 30 | He could n't bear to see Daniel Marsh fawning round his wife like a besotted mongrel , and any other man who looked at her was to be immediately discouraged . |