Example sentences of "[was/were] to [be] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1992 some 5,500 of the proposed 19,500 state housing units were to be constructed in occupied territories . |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia , by far the largest producer in OPEC , resisted pressure to accept a proportionally larger share of any cuts which were to be made in overall OPEC production . |
| 3 | Day nursery provision by local authorities was strictly limited in the 1930s and charged for , as a result of the cuts in local spending introduced as part of the National government 's economy drive , but when the Second World War came and women were to be mobilised in large numbers for the war effort , the government gave local authorities a 100-per-cent grant to cover the costs of day nurseries , merely charging parents for the cost of food served to the children . |
| 4 | It was the belief of many of its members that if explanations and theories were to be given for the facts collected in their natural histories , they were to be given in mechanical terms , specifically in terms of the corpuscular theory . |
| 5 | Although these measures were not especially radical in themselves , the Act against pluralism did infringe ecclesiastical immunity from secular jurisdiction , as offenders were to be prosecuted in royal rather than ecclesiastical courts . |
| 6 | These were to be situated in ordinary houses in the main towns — Paignton , Totnes , Torquay and Newton Abbot . |
| 7 | The ‘ Articles concerning the Charters ’ ordained that they were to be observed in full , including those regarding disafforestment , and read out in every county court four times a year . |
| 8 | Most of Gould 's collecting in Van Diemen 's Land , however , was done within 80 miles of Hobart , on or around the Derwent River and the fertile Macquairie Plains , where kingfishers , water crakes and crow-shrikes , golden plovers and white-fronted herons , bitterns and black-backed porphyrios were to be found in glorious profusion . |
| 9 | The book trade — where they were to be found in large numbers — differed from the other kinds of printing in several ways . |
| 10 | The beneficiaries of the averaging process were to be found in urban rather than rural areas and in the North rather than the South of the country . |
| 11 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 12 | Nonpaying peasants were to be arrested in minimal numbers , and only millers were to be imprisoned . |
| 13 | It may overlook the fact that science could become a very rebellious offspring ; and , as an apologetic strategy , it could easily backfire if science ( as some believe it has been ) were to be devalued in public estimation through association with polluting and exploitative technologies . |
| 14 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 15 | judges were to be irremovable , trials were to be held in public , juries were to adjudicate serious criminal cases , and elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases . |
| 16 | Those who accepted his commandments were to be judged in punctilious accordance with the law , whereas the ignorant savage in the darkened jungle who could not possibly have known the light would be treated with gentleness and given a second chance . |
| 17 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 18 | The pact also provided for 300 UN guards , all but a handful of whom were to be stationed in northern Iraq , and an unspecified number of aid workers . |
| 19 | Certain protected expenses were to be financed in full from the budget , and submitted to the Supreme Soviet for approval . |
| 20 | The legislation that was considered in Estonia , to take another example , introduced a compulsory language requirement for a number of occupations , although this was a violation of Soviet labour law , and provided that court business was to be conducted in Estonian , although this conflicted with all-union legislation on court procedures . |
| 21 | This argument was to be repeated in succeeding years during discussions over reform of the international monetary system , in which the United States consistently held that balance of payments targets should be defined in terms of current and capital account combined . |
| 22 | The union 's lawyers decided to apologise , and the editor was directed to approve the apology which was to be made in open court . |
| 23 | The loan was to be repaid in raw material and industrial products over four years from 1993 . |
| 24 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |
| 25 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 26 | On April 7 , the UN Security Council recommended the full deployment of the United Nations Protection Force in Yugoslavia ( UNPROFOR ) , which was to be stationed in Serb-populated areas within Croatia [ see p. 38778 ] , and a $26,000,000 net reduction in its estimated cost . |
| 27 | Nothing of this was to be found in mainstream pre-conciliar Roman ecclesiology ( though it is to be found in 1950s books representative of the ‘ new theology ’ by scholars like de Lubac and Congar , writers under much official suspicion at the time ) . |
| 28 | The old belief that one major source of crime was to be found in poor social conditions , for example , was not supported … |
| 29 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 30 | Although much of the dissent of 1855 and early 1856 was to be found in obscure memoranda written by one bureaucrat for another , manuscripts circulated by hand among the intelligentsia , and a journal which came out in faraway London , the Russian government also had reason to worry about dissent with a high public profile . |