Example sentences of "were to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sufferers from Alzheimer 's disease were to be exempt from the tax — a concession which opposition parties had fought for . |
| 32 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 33 | If the Saatchi Collection were to be dispersed , it is true to say that a whole era of international art would be effectively lost to the nation . |
| 34 | The latter were to be encouraged by Party propaganda at the uezd level to send in supportive letters to the press . |
| 35 | Nonpaying peasants were to be arrested in minimal numbers , and only millers were to be imprisoned . |
| 36 | Nonpaying peasants were to be arrested in minimal numbers , and only millers were to be imprisoned . |
| 37 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 38 | Wherever possible , Red Army men were to be installed on the committees . |
| 39 | Lectures and concerts were to be given , for which topics of current interest should be very carefully chosen , and which had to be free for all comers . |
| 40 | Gifts were to be handed out to all soldiers , and their food rations were to be improved between 6 and 8 November . |
| 41 | Gifts were to be handed out to all soldiers , and their food rations were to be improved between 6 and 8 November . |
| 42 | The strict pedagogic methods and moral precepts being worked out in 1922 by A. Makarenko at a microcosmic level near Poltava were to be taken over and applied wholesale to Stalin 's Russia in the 1930s . |
| 43 | Tracts were to be chosen solely for their propaganda value and for their capacity to instil a Communist ‘ world ’ view . |
| 44 | Yet paradoxically Makarenko 's educational theories were to be taken up , approved , and widely publicized in the Stalinist period . |
| 45 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 46 | As a small sop to regional differences , special networks were to be set up in the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and the other national minority areas . |
| 47 | Exchange controls were also notably relaxed ; in the autumn they were to be abolished altogether . |
| 48 | One of the most notable protest movements of the early Thatcher years was the series of demonstrations by feminist and other women supporters of unilateral nuclear disarmament at Greenham Common in Berkshire , where the Cruise missiles were to be based ( along with Molesworth in Cambridgeshire ) . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | The Branch supported the running costs for this special day when they were to be hosts at Storrington . |
| 51 | That scepticism and memory were to be important when he became an archbishop and was expected to be a leader in the organization . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Ice creams and soft drinks were to be served . |
| 54 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 55 | The lesson Haslam learned from his ICI experience was that wherever possible redundancy should be on a voluntary basis if the trauma were to be kept to a minimum . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Such farms were to be carefully laid out by agricultural officers on the basis of an arable/grass ley rotation , including appropriate cash crops such as coffee and pyretheum . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | ( Eventually these postal workers were to be fined up to £500 for disobeying union orders , while on the same occasion members who had disobeyed strike instructions elsewhere were fined much smaller sums ) . |
| 60 | 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 . |