Example sentences of "that [noun] was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a week of confusion , warnings of constitutional crisis and outrage over the possibility that Parliament was to be bypassed , Foreign Secretary Hurd turned urbanity and understatement into performance art . |
| 2 | It is clear that money was to be made honestly at this profession ; even clearer that forgery and other types of fraud were frequently used by moneyers as short-cuts to wealth . |
| 3 | He was only too thankful that Sarah was to be removed from his home . |
| 4 | Since it was revealed that Middlesbrough was to be given environment city status the borough council has organised a number of initiatives to help improve the town . |
| 5 | The English , with no hope now of consummating the Rough Wooing , finally withdrew ; but the French were proving almost equally unwelcome , provoking fears among committed Protestant reformers that Scotland was to be swallowed up by yet another powerful nation , and this one Papist . |
| 6 | An agreement was later made with the administrations of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland that Lusaka was to be the centre for broadcasting to Africans in the three territories . |
| 7 | In this case Lord Parker L.C.J. held in effect that consent was to be assessed differently in the case of girls under 16 . |
| 8 | The L & NWR Loco Committee Minutes of 9 February 1847 state that water was to be supplied to tenants willing to pay an extra rent of 2p per week . |
| 9 | The principle that education was to be open to all , irrespective of means ; public galleries and museums should be open to all , the National Health Service likewise . |
| 10 | This makes a mockery of one of the aims demonstrated by Seona Reid , director of the Scottish Arts Council for the development of the arts in Scotland , when she says that quality was to be rewarded wherever found . |
| 11 | Parliament ordered his arrest in February 1644 after he clashed at Paul 's Cross with the Presbyterian Cornelius Burges [ q.v. ] , and he was soon in trouble again for preaching , allegedly , that Christ was to be found even ‘ in hogs , and dogs , or sheep ’ . |
| 12 | ( 42 ) If he was small enough to sell his Lord for so little , how account for the remorse which led him to suicide when he realized that Christ was to be slain ? |
| 13 | ( The Iraqis had themselves declared on Sept. 24 that Bush was to be put on trial in mid-October for war crimes against Palestinians through US co-operation with the " Zionist entity " and for killings in Panama and Grenada . ) |
| 14 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 15 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 16 | When he saw that Mass was to be in the Lady Chapel he moved across and sat in the back row . |
| 17 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 18 | Military sources announced on June 4 that France was to " reduce the level of alert of strategic nuclear forces " . |
| 19 | Ellsworth Kelly first saw Paris in 1944 at the age of twenty-one after the Normandy landing ; the young marine can not have imagined then how important that city was to be to his artistic career . |
| 20 | The announcement that Guy was to be godfather to the new baby brought her to her senses with a sharp jolt . |
| 21 | By the end of September she had lost interest in everything , and waited with dread for the news that Corrie was to be taken back to London . |
| 22 | This is indicated in Layton 's references to the views of science on the one hand in terms of ‘ the disinterested pursuit of truth ’ , and on the other , particularly by those involved in the Great Exhibition , as ‘ the producer for the industrial market place ( so that science was to be studied for the economic benefits it would yield ) ’ . |
| 23 | The President of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Kosovo " , Ibrahim Rugova [ for election see p. 38919 ] , held talks in Geneva with Owen and Vance on Sept. 16 , during which he reiterated his fundamental position that Kosovo was to be treated as part of the former Yugoslavia , and not as a province of Serbia . |
| 24 | The Kentishmen 's statement of grievances , comprising fifteen articles and five requests to the King , throws some light on this ( 7 ; 11 , pp.338–42 ) The first article stated that there were rumours that Kent was to be turned into a forest as a punishment for Suffolk 's death . |
| 25 | That can mean only that UKIAS was to be made the exclusive provider of legal advice . |