Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun sg] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Attorney-General subsequently announced that libel was to be treated as a criminal offence , provoking protests against censorship from the local and foreign press . |
| 2 | Their Lordships rejected the claim saying that the statutory scheme showed that leave was to be ex parte . |
| 3 | In A Word in Season ( 1647 ) she championed lay preaching , and urged that godliness was to be found in many forms . |
| 4 | ‘ But if my Director-General asks what happened to the agreement that no operation of anything approaching this scale was to be mounted in this country without our knowledge … ? ’ |
| 5 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 6 | He might , in short , agree that democracy was to be preferred and its extension to be sought . |
| 7 | A spokeswoman for the Anti-Nazi League , which co-ordinated last night 's event , said another rally was to be held in Millwall Park today . |