Example sentences of "were [vb pp] to be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman knows full well that the CTCs were intended to be paid for by private employers . |
| 2 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 3 | In a first phase , in the 12 months starting in June 1992 , loans worth some $2,500 million were expected to be provided for essential imports . |
| 4 | The weapons , whose removal had been agreed during a meeting in 1986 between the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then US President Ronald Reagan , were expected to be shipped for incineration to Johnston Atoll in the Pacific [ see pp. 37658-59 ] . |
| 5 | In mid-November , however , Kurdish leaders were reported to be preparing for a fresh economic blockade and an imminent government attack on Kurdish strongholds . |
| 6 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 7 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 8 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 9 | The picture was not seen as ‘ a moment of time ’ but the wings were assumed to be spread for a long period ( Goldsmith , 1984 , pp.2–3 ) . |
| 10 | Although around one million people were estimated to be caring for at least 35 hours a week , only 109,000 received ICA in December 1989 . |
| 11 | Industrialists heading soon-to-be privatized enterprises , while supporting calls to relax monetary policy , could not concur with the calls for strikes and for a new government , which parliamentarians and trades union leaders were perceived to be making for their own political motives . |
| 12 | These pairs were chosen to be balanced for frequency , imageability , etc. , in the same way as if selected for human subjects . |