Example sentences of "were [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 2 | Henceforward British subjects were to be the sum total of the citizens of those territories — some independent and some not independent as yet — which had formerly been within the allegiance as dominions of the Crown . |
| 3 | Such individuals were to be the standard-bearers of an agricultural revolution based on a farming system which overcame the limitations of African soils by the scientific rotation of crops and their integration with livestock . |
| 4 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 5 | They were to be the basis of a new natural philosophy , and were advocated both by practising experimenters and by theoreticians . |
| 6 | The splendidly ornate style and the wealth of carvings in the soft-tinted stone were to be the subject of a poem . |
| 7 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 8 | New arrivals on the street scene were to be the stars of tomorrow and the mink-lined coffins that were the grand old studios were about to disappear for ever . |
| 9 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 10 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 11 | Sad to say , these successes were to be the prelude to the downfall of Leeds City . |
| 12 | These were to be the major elements of the action project . |
| 13 | Despite these intentions there is some evidence , however , drawn from proposed schemes submitted by LEAs ( but never implemented ) , which suggests that in practice the allegedly integrated curriculum emphasized ‘ liberal ’ studies for the 14- to 16-year-olds who were to be the first age-group to attend under compulsion . |
| 14 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 15 | These were to be the last workmen 's cottages built at Wolverton by the Company . |
| 16 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 17 | The story of the Frome Titfords properly ends with the youngest of the four brothers whose fortunes we have been following ; his children were to be the last Titfords in the town , and he himself outlived William , Thomas and Charles . |
| 18 | But all this re-creation of the old ways was also the creation of the Völkisch : the racially and culturally pure Aryans who were to be the master race destined to rule the world . |
| 19 | They were to be the pall-bearers . |
| 20 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 21 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 22 | Whether NoS could be classified as ‘ Loony Left ’ or not , the majority of its council backers were to be the big names on the Sun hit list . |
| 23 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 24 | Pageants were to be the salvation of the studios . |
| 25 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 26 | Kawanishi were to be the main assemblers . |
| 27 | Thus , it began to incorporate the principles of determinism and the differentiation of offenders from non-offenders that were to be the later hallmarks of positivist criminology . |
| 28 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 29 | Centralisation and nationalisation were to be the means to full employmcnt . |
| 30 | Having chosen the four townships that were to be the location of the snowball samples , it remained to select the zero stage of the samples , one individual from each township with whom to start the referral chains . |