Example sentences of "[that] [art] [noun] was to be " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Stewart and Mr. James Cowan and that the Subject was to be Republic versus Monarchy … after which all the Members present took part in the discussion and on the vote being taken Eleven voted for Monarchy and Five for Republic . "
2 But Devonport managers expressed ‘ disappointment and frustration ’ at the announcement that the decision was to be delayed further .
3 It emerged that the firm was to be sold , with massive government subsidies , to the Canadian Bombadier group .
4 It was anticipated that there would be controversy in the US Congress over this arms package , notably because of the concern of the pro-Israeli lobby over such agreements with Arab countries , and on Sept. 23 Baker said that the request was to be scaled down , from the original package worth $21,000 million to a smaller-scale sale totalling some $7,500 million initially .
5 At the end of August an indefinite freeze was placed on the repatriation of foreign companies ' profits and dividends ; however , in September the rules were relaxed to allow transfer of normal profits after 60 days , and in November it was reported that the freeze was to be lifted under pressure from international corporations .
6 She warned him that the company was to be investigated for alleged laundering of drug money through Swiss banks in the so-called " Lebanon connection " case , and he resigned his position later that same day [ ibid . ] .
7 After some discussion the Lord Chancellor directed that the money was to be put into the hands of trustees nominated by the committee , or else paid to the Accountant-General — which was likely to lead to added expense .
8 Markovic announced on Sept. 9 that the government was to be reorganized .
9 It was now , at the moment of supreme triumph , that it became apparent once more that the fates were intervening to demonstrate that the day was to be memorable most of all for its disasters .
10 Dexter had expected her to say that the day was to be spent seeking more evidence against David Parkin .
11 Speaking from the basilica on the site where the Virgin was said to have appeared in 1917 , he told a crowd of thousands that the Virgin was to be thanked for " leading nations towards liberty " — interpreted as a reference to the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe .
12 On 30 May the king announced that the militia was to be mobilised and might — an important innovation — be required to serve where ‘ occasion shall require ’ , i.e. if necessary outside their own counties .
13 The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance .
14 By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state .
15 Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager .
16 The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary .
17 Walesa signed a bill to revalue pensions on Nov. 8 , but announced that the law was to be amended immediately to reduce the number of people whose pensions would be cut as a result .
18 But her rights had indeed been prejudiced by the manner in which Grilly had behaved , claiming that the comté was to be surrendered unconditionally , and acting in a high-handed manner during the ceremony in which the keys of the comital aula , or hall , at Tarbes were handed over .
19 John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) .
20 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat ; and she gave also unto her husband with her , and he did eat …
21 It dawned upon Ruth with some surprise that the outing was to be a great treat for Miss Beard , and that in spite of all her high-faluting talk , not many of those came her way .
22 At the time of delivery the plaintiff 's employee tendered a delivery note for signature which made it clear that the contract was to be on the plaintiff 's conditions .
23 ‘ The police were told that the truck was to be left alone until someone came and got it , ’ Myeloski went on , having regained his breath .
24 He further stipulated that the building was to be erected within seven years of his death , otherwise the trustees were authorised to apply the money to any other charitable purpose .
25 US doubts were redoubled by news that the coup was to be led by Major Giraldi , a close associate of the Panamanian military dictator .
26 It was decided that the constitution was to be based on a " voluntary union " , confirmed by a treaty prepared by the Czech and Slovak National Councils , with the hope that the new federal and republican constitutions would be elaborated in advance of parliamentary elections in June 1992 .
27 Ata'i writes that Molla Abdulfettah , having been appointed to the Seyfeddin medrese in Ankara with 50 akce , was dismissed and then restored to that medrese " with [ an ] judgement " ( that is , that the medrese was to be judged to be in the and treated accordingly ) and continues : " His became and , by reason of the esteem [ due to/shown to a ] [ muderris ] , the mouth of his hope smiled . "
28 Again , in his biography of Molla Mustafa Sarukhani ( Ak Musli : d. 1016/1608 ) , Ata'i says that the subject , while in retirement from a 40-akce medrese , was in 994/1585–6 given the muftilik of Agras " with [ an ] stipulation and rank " is ambiguous , however , since it could conceivably mean not that the medrese was to be considered as but that it was given with the stipulation that the muderris should receive an medrese in due course ) .
29 The judge decided that the surveyor was to be an expert , because the lease contained an underlease immediately preceding the rent review clause , and in the underlease the draftsman had used express words to specify the choice of procedure as arbitrationthe disputed clause did not use any of those wordshence the surveyor was an expert .
30 Legh offered twenty pounds , the gem which his dead mistress had prized so much , and some gold earrings , saying that the infant was to be called Topaz .
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