Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [noun] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad had left slightly more money than expected , and that money was to be divided equally between Nathan , Georgia and Rona , Rona 's share to be held in trust until she attained the age of eighteen . |
| 2 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 3 | He declared that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid and that vengeance was to be taken against his clan . |
| 4 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 5 | Hard work was to be accompanied by moral instruction and each convict was to be treated to a series of discussions with a qualified counsellor . |
| 6 | The message to emerge from this conference was one of liberation , from both spiritual and material bondage , and this liberation was to be achieved by the participation in the whole life of the church , not just church services . |
| 7 | One well informed historian of the period believes that the Cabinet was in favour of retaining the death penalty by a majority of eleven to five , and this estimate was to be borne out in a vote in the Commons the following April . |
| 8 | But he only promised to ‘ do justice ’ regarding the forests created by Henry II and Richard I. An inquiry was to be made in every county by an elected jury of twelve knights into ‘ evil customs ’ of forests , warrens and rivers , and these customs were to be abolished within forty days , provided that the king , or , in his absence , the Justiciar , were first informed . |
| 9 | Adolescents were to be taught that they had a duty to serve the community and these ideas were to be bound together within the framework of ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 10 | Flanders , at the beginning of the war , was still the principal manufacturer of cloth made from English wool , although from the mid-fourteenth century more and more cloth was to be made in England . |
| 11 | The Wokingham Blacks grew more confident , but that complacency was to be their undoing . |
| 12 | The sociology of knowledge was deemed to have a role in grasping the social basis of knowledge but this task was to be clearly distinguished from any comment on the validity of knowledge . |
| 13 | Cleyn became well known as an engraver and a painter in England , but these cartoons were to be his masterpiece . |