Example sentences of "troops be [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Support troops are to be out of both countries by the end of June .
2 MORE than 3,000 United Nations troops are to be sent into war-torn Somalia to protect food supplies , the Security Council decided last night .
3 RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used .
4 A massive blow , delivered at maximum speed , was to knock France out of the war in the first six weeks ; then , using Germany 's efficient interior rail system , the victorious troops were to be rushed east to destroy the Tsar 's armies before Russia 's cumbersome mobilization could be completed .
5 Russian troops were to be withdrawn from Manchuria .
6 But Welsh and English alike took care to put their valuables and their armour , if they had any , safely under lock and key , for if the returning troops were to be billeted in the town , even for a few nights , there would certainly be some looting , and no sane burgess was so loyal a king 's man as to be complacent about losing goods and gear without a struggle to preserve them .
7 Under the accord ( i ) an immediate ceasefire was declared ; ( ii ) the state of emergency in Gao and Timbuktu provinces was lifted and army troops were to be withdrawn from the area ; ( iii ) an amnesty was granted to all Tuareg political prisoners ; ( iv ) internal autonomy was to be granted to the Adrar region ( i.e. Gao and Timbuktu ) ; and ( v ) additional state funds were to be allocated to the development of the region .
8 On May 27 it was reported that the last 119 Cuban troops remaining in Angola had arrived home in Havana , five weeks ahead of schedule [ see pp. 36479-81 for 1988 agreement under which the Cuban troops were to be withdrawn ] .
9 OMON troops were to be redeployed in Russia , it was announced on Aug. 25 .
10 In response to the Sept. 11 announcement by the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that 11,000 Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from Cuba , an editorial in the official Communist party newspaper Granma declared that the decision had been " unilateral " , had broken historical and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 " .
11 Despite his government 's contention that Ciskei was an independent country , however , late on Sept. 7 de Klerk announced that South African troops were to be deployed there to " protect industrial property " , which was largely owned by white South African citizens .
12 In addition , ground troops were to be supported by Italian aircraft and , most importantly , by the German Condor Legion .
13 A force of " green " troops is to be set up to fight pollution and natural disasters worldwide .
14 The number of German troops was to be reduced to 370,000 within three to four years .
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