Example sentences of "[noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The result was to be a House of Commons with a greater legitimacy in the eyes of MPs and electors and one with an ability to assert itself in its relationship with government . |
| 32 | The size of the new electorate meant that the voters could be reached only through some well-developed organization , and the result was to be the growth of organized and mass-membership political parties . |
| 33 | It was on the northern borders of France and the Empire , moreover , that the last act in the drama of John 's defeat was to be played out — at Bouvines on 27 July 1214 , when the coalition between the Plantagenets , Flanders and the German Empire was routed by philip Augustus 's army . |
| 34 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 35 | The interior of my mind was to be shaped according to his merchandising plan , with circular display racks of concepts standing in aisles of cogitation , flanked by long shelves groaning with brightly coloured little ideas . |
| 36 | Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value ; Charles had confirmed that a friendly relationship existed between the great kingdom of the Franks and Rome , and that a pope could make demands upon the Frankish king in full expectation of support and response — perhaps even of obedience . |
| 37 | A crisp voice informed him that the arrangement between Chemical and Virgin over the financing of Virgin 's aircraft was to be terminated forthwith , and the aircraft given back to Boeing . |
| 38 | He had to say that any effect produced by a talisman around the neck was to be ascribed to the devil , whereas effects due to Christian amulets came from God 's goodness . |
| 39 | But much more needed to be done if the CEGB 's post-Sizewell tide of optimism was to be turned . |
| 40 | These readjustments , carried out between June and August , laid down in outline the areas where Richard was to be active for the rest of the reign . |
| 41 | These readjustments , carried out between June and August , laid down in outline the areas where Richard was to be active for the rest of the reign . |
| 42 | Monthly premiums for beneficiaries was to be gradually increased from $28.60 to $46.50 by 1995 . |
| 43 | The country 's draft National Forestry Action Plan , drawn up with the help of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , concluded that if Indonesia was to be self-sufficient in wood for its burgeoning paper industry , new pulpwood plantations would have to be developed . |
| 44 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 45 | For a time the decline in Canada 's conventional oil reserves was to be met by the development of Western Canada 's gigantic oil sands deposits . |
| 46 | The crucial point is that the English department was to be elevated , not so much by virtue of its importance within the institution , but because of the role it might be made to occupy in leading , coordinating , and sustaining extra-mural initiatives : |
| 47 | The hitherto important military department was to be dissolved completely and replaced by an advisory committee subject to the direct control of the politburo . |
| 48 | During their courtship they believed that his true future was to be a poet . |
| 49 | Growing more acquisitive in the present , they prepared to disown the past ; the future was to be different , both for themselves and their children , and they had to run to catch up with it . |
| 50 | It seemed that the only way I could be sure of making teams in future was to be so far ahead of the opposition that they could n't possibly leave me out . |
| 51 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 52 | Making sure that Ryan was already inside , they entered , sat near him , and began a general chat about land , A saying to B , in a casual roundabout fashion , that if he had any land going in Norfolk to unload it quickly because the councils were clamping down on building regulations and that land in future was to be used for agricultural purposes only . ’ |
| 53 | At home , he had quelled the murmurings of those who wanted a clear sign of what the regime 's institutional future was to be , without committing himself to a date for the return of a monarch to the leadership of the state , and without specifying who his successor would be . |
| 54 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 55 | Rowe , the loyal Australian , stayed put , but a group of Australians whose influence on London and the underground was to be crucial had started the shift , including Neville , Sharp , and Germaine Greer . |
| 56 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 57 | In Elders IXL/Allied Lyons ( 1986 ) the MMC concerned itself with the method by which Elders ' bid was to be financed , but came to the view that the issue of leveraged bids was not one on which it should pronounce . |
| 58 | Four days later the Military Council , which had ruled in Georgia since the flight of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January [ see pp. 38731-32 ] , transferred its legislative and executive powers to a newly created State Council of which Shevardnadze was to be the chair . |
| 59 | Mandela was to be assassinated by a sniper on his return from abroad in mid-July . |
| 60 | In 1977 , Peter Shore , Secretary of State for the Environment , announced that the new-town programme was to be curtailed ( Shore , 1977 ) . |