Example sentences of "[noun pl] was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city — and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems — it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella . |
| 2 | Monthly premiums for beneficiaries was to be gradually increased from $28.60 to $46.50 by 1995 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In this last case there would , of course be no indication to the foreign learner that the pair of words was to be treated as a compound . |
| 6 | A complex of swimming-pools , splash pools and towering chutes was to be built on three sides of her home , with a vast car park to the front . |
| 7 | To be named in Red Channels was to be unemployable … unless you cleared yourself by making a voluntary appearance before the House Committee or McCarthy 's Sub-Committee as a ‘ friendly witness ’ who shopped his former friends to prove the ‘ sincerity ’ of his repentance . |
| 8 | In contrast with earlier discussions and orders , which treated all " Cossacks " and " Russians " as an entity , it certainly allows for some distinction to be drawn between those who were liable for repatriation and those who were not — hence , for instance , the ruling that the White Russian Schutzkorps was to be excluded . |
| 9 | The ‘ sale ’ of the King by the Scots was to be likened in the hagiography to that of Christ by Judas Iscariot . |
| 10 | A whole range of styles was to be recycled into a sort of architectural digest of Italianate Gothic , Romanesque , ‘ Queen Anne ’ , and Venetian . |
| 11 | In the same year , when a judge confronted with a boy burglar at the London Sessions was to be found pontificating against the cinema as ‘ a grave danger to the community ’ which was ‘ responsible for the downfall of many young people ’ , the prosecutor jokingly remarked that ‘ it was perhaps an example of retributive justice that one of the houses broken into belonged to a cinematograph proprietor ’ . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 13 | Early in the project there had been considerable discussion among the development officers and their supervisor about the ending of the project , and how the care of on-going clients was to be continued after the withdrawal of the development officers . |
| 14 | Trade around this period was approximately 3 million tons per annum and the new dock able to accommodate much larger vessels was to further increase this total over the next few years . |
| 15 | All because of one silly accident , which had n't even been her fault , her life for the next long miserable eighteen months was to be ruled by a man whom she detested with all her heart . |
| 16 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 17 | One of today 's letterbombs was to a farmer with convictions for cruelty to animals , the other to a cat breeder . |
| 18 | Production of CFCs in EC countries was to be cut by 85 per cent by 1995 . |
| 19 | One of Len Battersby 's regular visits was to each cutter in turn at the end of a crewing tour when he would sit all the crew round the messdeck table and ask each individual for his comments on the season 's activities . |
| 20 | In the spring 1993 Budget the Chancellor announced that the tax credit on dividends paid by UK companies was to be reduced from 25 per cent to 20 per cent for dividends paid after 5 April 1993 . |
| 21 | Officials of the State Planning Committee said on Feb. 13 that the number of goods subject to its setting import and export quotas was to be reduced in 1992 . |
| 22 | Where these three conditions were n't met then policy erm reducing interest and rents was to be taking place . |
| 23 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 24 | The term of office of the commissioners was to be six years : it would be staggered , with one-third retiring every two years , so as to provide some degree of continuity and collective memory . |
| 25 | Its emphasis on careful measurement and exact analysis of the events mediated by receptors was to be justified by the key role this was to play in the subsequent development of novel drugs for the treatment of , for example , angina and hypertension . |
| 26 | In order to maintain a balanced budget , a pillar of government policy , the loss of revenue from import duties was to be offset by an extension of the stamp tax on loans , to cover short-term foreign loans as well as domestic loans . |
| 27 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 28 | One of the first and most dramatic applications of rational expectations was to a flexible-price version of Friedman 's ( 1968 ) natural rate hypothesis . |
| 29 | The processing of asylum applications was to be accelerated . |
| 30 | The number of German troops was to be reduced to 370,000 within three to four years . |