Example sentences of "there was to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existing two-tier system , it recommended , should be replaced by fifty-eight unitary authorities which would cover most of the country , but in three metropolitan areas there was to be a two-tier arrangement with responsibilities divided between a metropolitan county council and large district authorities ( along lines similar to those then operating in Greater London ) . |
| 2 | There was to be a European Council |
| 3 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 4 | At officer level there was to be a chief executive ( in place of the former town clerk ) whose role was to advise the Policy and Resources Committee and head a small management team ( consisting mainly of chief departmental officers ) which would prepare plans and programmes as well as co-ordinate policy implementation . |
| 5 | At the same time the trade unions expressed strong opposition to the draft budget for 1991 , which contained plans to cut public spending , ostensibly to offset the effects of the Gulf crisis , to increase defence spending and to cut corporate taxes ; there was to be a small increase in wealth tax . |
| 6 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 7 | A message , unspoken , was there between them : he was to be a new man , there was to be a new relationship . |
| 8 | There was to be a new national Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) of 9 per cent on most goods and services to take effect Jan. 1 , 1991 , replacing the existing Federal Manufacturers ' Sales Tax . |
| 9 | Explicit in the design of the projects was the attempt to achieve these aims without diverting traffic to other areas — in other words there was to be a genuine experiment in calming existing traffic in situ , not simply exporting the problems to other districts . |
| 10 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |
| 11 | Corporate income tax was reduced by one percentage point to 31 per cent and there was to be a one-off rebate of 5 per cent in personal income tax . |
| 12 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 13 | In addition to a common army , there was to be a common budget and common institutions . |
| 14 | If there was to be a severe winter , George hoped that he would see the warning signs early enough to anticipate it . |
| 15 | There was to be a modest reduction in their strength from 800,000 to 700,000 in all ranks . |
| 16 | However , there was to be a significant change as the convoy journeyed further north . |
| 17 | However , there was to be a government-imposed profit ceiling above which a 100 per cent tax would be levied . |