Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides won 11 matches — more than the total achieved by five of the previous six champion counties — but a revealing figure was to be found among the bonus points , where Essex harvested 11 more in the batting column . |
| 2 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 3 | In other words , a scientific sociology was to be used for the reorganisation of society . |
| 4 | As will be seen , a British play was to be the making of him . |
| 5 | A clear division was to be made then , with all who served their country being enfranchised and all who refused being disfranchised , in both cases irrespective of age or other considerations ; the war was to be the test and the policy was to be " What did you do in the war , Daddy ? " |
| 6 | In 1631 it was granted afresh to his widow , Prudence , by King Charles I with the stipulation that a free market was to be held in the district weekly ‘ on the Sabbath day ’ ( ie on Saturdays ) — and Saturday is still the market day . |
| 7 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 8 | A joint commission was to be set up to examine current fiscal legislation and elaborate reforms to promote investment and expenditure savings . |
| 9 | Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications . |
| 10 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 11 | A hard line was to be maintained for violent and sexual offences with provisions for longer sentences , and Crown Courts were to be given the powers to impose heavier sentences than the individual offence justified , to persistent offenders deemed to be a public risk . |
| 12 | In November 1990 the President confirmed that a multiparty system was to be established [ see p. 37841 ] . |
| 13 | If a long hall was to be vaulted by a cross or groined vault the room would be divided by piers into square bays each of which would be covered by a cross vault . |
| 14 | A Prime Minister was to be elected , the first of these being Witte . |
| 15 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 16 | A first-class chief was to be offered a carpet , rather than a rug , to sit on , and the Resident was to rise both to receive him and to dismiss him . |
| 17 | One of the attributes of a good witch was to be able to brew love potions on demand , and lovage acquired its name because it was once thought to be an aphrodisiac and was therefore an essential ingredient of such recipes . |
| 18 | At this time , one of the ways of learning the skills of a medical practitioner was to be apprenticed to a physician or surgeon . |
| 19 | A united front was to be formed with the Nationalists . |
| 20 | Seven years later Agate reported on the opening of a new cinema of ‘ almost Babylonish magnificence ’ in the London suburb of Brixton , and he drew attention to the running fountain with its goldfish , the marble stairs , the thick carpets , the cushioned seats , the noble organ , and the fact that a full orchestra was to be used . |
| 21 | The Greek achievement represented an ideal : special , superior , but still largely remote and mysterious ; Germany 's own new culture was to evolve by coming to terms with it ; and a collective effort was to be the means of realizing that aim . |
| 22 | Such a general concept was to be provided by Althusser 's theory of relative autonomy within a structure in dominance . |
| 23 | Furthermore , there were other reasons why a general dictionary was to be preferred over the domain-specific dictionaries . |
| 24 | Once all this was achieved , a general advance was to be made eastward in the direction of Cambrai . |
| 25 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 26 | A post-imprisonment supervision was to be introduced for those serving more than one year , and wider powers given to the courts to make parents take responsibility for their children 's offences . |
| 27 | The wheedling tone as well as the now seldom-used paternal appellation told Wexford that a monstrous request was to be made of him . |
| 28 | It was agreed that elections would be held in Zimbabwe , despite the activities of various black guerrilla forces led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe , and a constitutional convention was to be held in London . |
| 29 | A constitutional conference was to be convened within three months . |
| 30 | Broadly speaking , transformation into a common market was to be spread over a period of between 12 and 15 years , with a stepwise progression through stages of four years each . |