Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1980 the government announced that a further 192 non-departmental bodies were to be wound up by 1983 , bringing the total savings up to about 23m a year by 1983 . |
| 2 | Heseltine informed parliament that only 10 nonviable pits were to be closed immediately , that decisions on the other mines would be deferred to the beginning of 1993 , and that Lord Walker of Worcester , a former senior Cabinet minister , would advise the government on examination of the issue . |
| 3 | Only three spare rooms were to be provided on the second floor of the Foreign Office , and none were to be provided in the War Department . |
| 4 | In the glorious Summer of 1914 military guards were to be stationed at Saltash Pier and other landing places ‘ as a precaution ’ . |
| 5 | In response to the Sept. 11 announcement by the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that 11,000 Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from Cuba , an editorial in the official Communist party newspaper Granma declared that the decision had been " unilateral " , had broken historical and legitimate bilateral accords and was the equivalent of giving a " green light " to the United States to carry out " aggressive plans against Cuba " . |
| 6 | In the Bordelais , eight castellan families were to be found at the beginning of the twelfth century , but their number had grown to twenty-four by 1294 . |
| 7 | His five provincial councils were to be appointed rather than indirectly elected and concerned primarily with intergovernmental relations . |
| 8 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 9 | The two existing verandahs were to be used for patient accommodation ‘ for which they were intended ’ and the number of patients in the present wards should be reduced by 17 ‘ to conform to standards of spacing ’ . |
| 10 | Two subsidiary actions were to be included . |
| 11 | Pippin was assigned Neustria , but the two main beneficiaries were to be Louis the German and Charles , leaving Lothar with only Italy . |