Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever slew a hart or hind was to be blinded . |
| 2 | Anselm was determined to make the clearest possible break with past practice : henceforth no priest or deacon was to be allowed , on any pretext whatsoever , to have a wife and continue to carry out his duties , and he had prepared an elaborate series of provisional arrangements to cope with the shortage of qualified priests under the new regulations . |
| 3 | In this case Lord Parker L.C.J. held in effect that consent was to be assessed differently in the case of girls under 16 . |
| 4 | Until that date Louis was to retain the Norman Vexin while Margaret was to be kept in Henry 's custody . |
| 5 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 6 | Such a move towards greater political integration was seen by Lord Scarman as essential if the gap between inner-city residents and the forces of law and order was to be bridged . |
| 7 | Tariffs on passenger vehicles were to be reduced from 35 per cent in 1992 to 15 per cent by 2000 , and protection for textiles , clothing and footwear was to be cut from a maximum of 55 per cent to 25 per cent . |
| 8 | The system of licensing and control was to be operated by the Director of Fair Trading . |
| 9 | It coexisted with an ardently self-purifying ethos , where every emotion in literature and life was to be tried and tested against moral examples offered by the great poets and novelists of past time : by Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience , by George Eliot 's Middlemarch , by the fiction ( above all ) of D. H. Lawrence . |
| 10 | Understandably so , for these problems were grave indeed : the Kennedys had been killed , likewise Dr King ; the streets of Paris and London were furious with the sounds of protest ; the cities and university towns of America were in turmoil : race relations , the draft , mind-expanding drugs , the Weather Underground , Dylan , Daley , psychedelia , the National Guard ; a cause for a riot , bomb or occupation was to be found everywhere , every day . |
| 11 | The announcement that Guy was to be godfather to the new baby brought her to her senses with a sharp jolt . |
| 12 | One was the recognition that leadership was of prime importance if discipline was to be maintained and armies kept together as teams rather than as collections of individuals . |
| 13 | Angela Cartwright , as chairman of the local Party , explained the procedure for calling a Special General Meeting if Grunte was to be de-selected , and the meeting adjourned after Carole Swan said she would take soundings among members of the Party after the conference . |
| 14 | The boy saw what fun and mischief was to be had . |
| 15 | By the end of September she had lost interest in everything , and waited with dread for the news that Corrie was to be taken back to London . |
| 16 | His objective was to challenge what he called ‘ the liberal theory of the state ’ which ‘ assumed that in political society where anarchy was to be avoided there must be a supreme authority which gives orders to all and receives orders from none ’ . |
| 17 | The worst fate that could befall any relative or follower was to be declared a ‘ broken man ’ : that is , either by punitive official proceedings or by some family banishment , to be removed from the protection of the surname and so become an outlaw , fair prey for any enemy , English or Scottish . |
| 18 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 19 | The conflict between nobility , emperor and papacy was to be a constant and powerful factor throughout his reign . |
| 20 | However , continued investment of raw materials and capital goods was required if the necessary growth and investment was to be sustained . |
| 21 | The same applied in reverse when cement was to be exported . |
| 22 | The principle that education was to be open to all , irrespective of means ; public galleries and museums should be open to all , the National Health Service likewise . |
| 23 | After a week of confusion , warnings of constitutional crisis and outrage over the possibility that Parliament was to be bypassed , Foreign Secretary Hurd turned urbanity and understatement into performance art . |
| 24 | The President of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Kosovo " , Ibrahim Rugova [ for election see p. 38919 ] , held talks in Geneva with Owen and Vance on Sept. 16 , during which he reiterated his fundamental position that Kosovo was to be treated as part of the former Yugoslavia , and not as a province of Serbia . |
| 25 | Any event which celebrated Catholic , nationalist , or republican culture and history was to be opposed . |
| 26 | All you had to do to qualify for torture , persecution and death was to be a female who dared step out of line with patriarchal society . |
| 27 | Where these three conditions were n't met then policy erm reducing interest and rents was to be taking place . |