Example sentences of "were to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 32 | The earlier period had aroused many expectations that America was on the verge of a social cinema , but , as the social-problem films of the post-1933 period came along , critics were to be uneasy about many of their characteristics . |
| 33 | When I told him that if we were to be married I would n't ask my father for a penny he … well , he threw me out . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ He was a student at the university : they were to be married until she decided a career on the stage suited her better than becoming the wife of a Hapsburg cavalry officer . |
| 35 | Moreover , all pupils were to be subject to annual tests in reading , writing and arithmetic , administered by HMI , and 2s. 8d. ( approximately 14p ) was to be deducted from the grant for each test a child failed . |
| 36 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 37 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 38 | Thus in Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works it was held that demolition powers vested in the defendant Board were to be subject to notice and hearing requirements . |
| 39 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
| 40 | They were to be wandering years , but they were to end in triumph . |
| 41 | Partnerships were to be developed between central and local government , social problems were to be relieved and a better demographic balance was to be achieved between the older cities and their surrounding conurbations . |
| 42 | None were to be relieved who had a right to the benefit of the Insolvent Act currently going through Parliament , except by paying their clearance fees . |
| 43 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 44 | The management of a firm by knowing the contribution from the next best opportunity could quickly determine the additional contribution if the constraint were to be relieved . |
| 45 | Again they were to be disappointed . |
| 46 | However , if Athletico had hopes of a brief stay away from the Premier they were to be disappointed . |
| 47 | But they were to be disappointed . |
| 48 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 49 | Some , including the eldest , Robert , were to be famous for recusancy , whilst others , like Clement , were convinced Puritans ; Nicholas [ q.v. ] was indicted and acquitted of treason in 1554 . |
| 50 | Beyond the V-bombers , which were to be high-altitude , subsonic aircraft with a range of 1,500 nautical miles , the Air Staff envisaged a supersonic successor with greater range and navigational accuracy . |
| 51 | The clauses under which Edward renounced his claim to the French throne and John renounced sovereignty over Aquitaine were excised from the treaty and embodied in a separate document which laid down that the renunciations were to be carried out no later than 1 November 1361 , and were to be conditional upon the transfers of territory agreed in the treaty being implemented by June 1361 . |
| 52 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 53 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 54 | These schools were to be non-denominational and open to inspection . |
| 55 | If the overlap were to be complete we would have perfect communication : both parties would have identical perceptions and whatever happened in one bubble would happen in the other . |
| 56 | It was not clear from the report which items of library expenditure were to be involved in that figure . |
| 57 | While little attempt was made to alter the character of the patchwork of health services available in the inter war period , all the parties that were to be involved in their transformation in the 1940s were beginning to examine the weaknesses of the existing provision and to formulate alternatives . |
| 58 | The deadline set for this was 1990 , a simple majority vote of the borough council being sufficient to ensure separation ; neither parents nor governors were to be involved in the decision . |
| 59 | In 1850 his eldest son David became a partner and soon six brothers were to be involved in the firm in various capacities . |
| 60 | The release appeared to confirm speculation that South African agents imprisoned in neighbouring countries , including Zimbabwe and Botswana , were to be involved in the amnesty and repatriation process currently being negotiated by the ANC and the South African government . |