Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 2 | One of the principal figures within the Association was to be Henry Newbolt , imperialist poet , celebrant of the mystique of the public school , future chairman of the Board of Education Committee which reported on the state of English in 1921 , and — like Haldane — a supporter of the national efficiency group in its aims of planning imperial policy , improving education , and recapturing commercial prosperity . |
| 3 | The Declaration envisaged the abolition of all tariffs within the zone , although Ecuador was to be permitted to dismantle its strongly protectionist system in two stages — 50 per cent of its tariffs would be lifted by the end of 1991 , and the remainder by June 30 , 1992 . |
| 4 | After reports in the Washington Post that the ICRC and UN field workers had hired several thousand local " mercenaries " to protect food distribution operations , the ICRC on May 8 issued a statement to the effect that " local relief committees " organized by the clans and sub-clans were acting as a " police force " ; a small amount of the food aid was to be given them as " food for work " . |
| 5 | Aid was to be distributed by non-governmental organizations " both local and international " , as well as by " the competent local authorities " . |
| 6 | From them I learned that the coronation was to be on the day after next , and not in three weeks . |
| 7 | The Fire Brigade was to be asked to instruct the officers in the use of the appliances . |
| 8 | A special army brigade was to be formed to control the missiles , which would replace the ageing S-3 ( Pluton ) models . |
| 9 | The project concentrates on a period during which the rapidly acquired industrial stock was to be put into efficient use by inexperienced labour and management . |
| 10 | In further Parliamentary answers given in March and October 1985 , the Secretary of State made it clear : ( i ) that if the tariff was to be 20 years or more , there would be a local review committee review after 17 years ; and ( ii ) that the procedure announced by Mr. Brittan in November 1983 applied to discretionary as well as to mandatory life sentences . |
| 11 | It was a stiff , headmasterly performance , appropriate to the handing down from the palace of the kingly rules by which the democratic experiment was to be played . |
| 12 | Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city — and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems — it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella . |
| 13 | They had left school that summer , not wishing to study any more , and Fontanellato was to be their home until the end of the war . |
| 14 | This embryo raiding force was to be called L Detachment , Special Air Service Brigade . |
| 15 | If force was to be " used , it would be with the authorization of the full chain of command to Allied Forces Headquarters . |
| 16 | The number of towns over which low-level flying was banned was increased from 25 to 61 and the hours of low-level flying conducted by the West German Air Force was to be reduced from 23,000 to 21,000 each year , although the number of hours for other NATO air forces remained at 45,000 . |
| 17 | In late July it was announced that Morocco 's air force was to be upgraded through the purchase of 20 F-16 fighter aircraft , worth in total US$250,000,000 , and drawn from United States air force stocks . |
| 18 | A Dec. 21 announcement by the authorities that a new border police force was to be created and military patrols strengthened was followed by the deportation of thousands of Albanian nationals over the next week . |
| 19 | The interim coalition was to be led by a Prime Minister drawn from outside the main parties , and Lukanov 's government was to stay in office until the new government was formed . |
| 20 | 9 am on Tuesday was to be my first lesson . |
| 21 | The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four . |
| 22 | However , continued investment of raw materials and capital goods was required if the necessary growth and investment was to be sustained . |
| 23 | Encouragement for small and medium-sized businesses would be accompanied by the " purging of public institutions " , and fresh foreign investment was to be sought . |
| 24 | Fiji 's executive President was to be appointed for a five-year term by the Great Council of Chiefs , which would also nominate 24 Melanesians to the 34-member Senate . |
| 25 | Furthermore , there were other reasons why a general dictionary was to be preferred over the domain-specific dictionaries . |
| 26 | No longer the prop of an unjust social order , the God of the Magnificat was to be found on the side of the poor while the mighty trembled at the prospect of being toppled from their insecure thrones . |
| 27 | Ata'i writes that Molla Abdulfettah , having been appointed to the Seyfeddin medrese in Ankara with 50 akce , was dismissed and then restored to that medrese " with [ an ] judgement " ( that is , that the medrese was to be judged to be in the and treated accordingly ) and continues : " His became and , by reason of the esteem [ due to/shown to a ] [ muderris ] , the mouth of his hope smiled . " |
| 28 | Again , in his biography of Molla Mustafa Sarukhani ( Ak Musli : d. 1016/1608 ) , Ata'i says that the subject , while in retirement from a 40-akce medrese , was in 994/1585–6 given the muftilik of Agras " with [ an ] stipulation and rank " is ambiguous , however , since it could conceivably mean not that the medrese was to be considered as but that it was given with the stipulation that the muderris should receive an medrese in due course ) . |
| 29 | In the long term this was to have a marked effect , but the immediate result was to be Curteys 's deposition in 1580 , after the infuriated gentry had appealed to the Privy Council to stop his assaults on what they regarded as their own just rights . |
| 30 | The result was to be the Reform Act of 1832 . |