Example sentences of "[noun sg] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The zaibatsu were to be dissolved as interlocking corporate entities and the US model of monopoly control established . |
| 2 | Labour Research ( 1988a ) suggested that the strict mining safety laws would have to be weakened if the coal industry were to be privatised . |
| 3 | Uniform national standards of performance for new industry were to be established . |
| 4 | Among the factors which they are required to take into account in reaching a decision are the seriousness of the offence , and whether their own powers of punishment would be adequate if the defendant were to be convicted ( section 19 , Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Free speech and free political association were to be backed by an extension of the franchise to all adults over the age of 20 , a formal extension of the power of the elected legislature ( the Diet ) and guarantees of judicial independence from both the executive and the Diet . |
| 6 | If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act . |
| 7 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 8 | If their blood were to be circulated through thin flaps extending laterally from the back they could certainly warm themselves very effectively and quickly in the sunshine . |
| 9 | New rules and a programme were to be approved at the Komsomol 's 22nd congress scheduled for early 1990 . |
| 10 | Might any fear that disabled employment opportunities would collapse if the prop of the statutory quota were to be removed be assuaged by placing a statutory obligation upon employers to adopt and to implement an affirmative action plan ? |
| 11 | On occasion arrangements would be made between governments , such as in the period 1632–47 when England and Spain agreed that large amounts of Spanish silver were to be coined at the mint of London , accounting for a high proportion of its output . |
| 12 | Neither Theodora nor the script were to be seen . |
| 13 | Bike parking and signposting were to be improved and experiments with bikes in pedestrian areas were to be tried . |
| 14 | We showed previously that two factors were of critical importance if a good clinical result were to be achieved after restorative proctocolectomy : firstly , the pelvic reservoir should be capacious and compliant and should empty well ; secondly , the anal sphincter must be strong both before and after operation . |
| 15 | At this level of intimate contact with the sovereign were to be found also his medical advisers , chief among them Dr Conneau , another one of the faithful who had accompanied the Prince at Boulogne and who had shared his imprisonment at Ham . |
| 16 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |
| 17 | Export permits currently in force were to be withdrawn . |
| 18 | On April 22 , 1990 , Biya announced that people still in detention as a result of the coup attempt were to be released . |
| 19 | If guidance were to be sought in matters which hovered on the boundary between the two , it was likely that the church would be seen by people and politicians as authoritative in resolving the issue . |
| 20 | And even if a break were to be found , the five naos and the 277 men would have to sail — how far ? |
| 21 | With one exception , no new categories of institution were to be created : the Regional Colleges of Education would provide opportunities for higher education and provide ‘ the seedbed for some further growth of institutions to university status ’ . |
| 22 | We may usefully draw an analogy here with the women 's movement in which it soon became apparent that if the real extent and nature of sexual oppression were to be understood , and services appropriate to real needs struggled for , feminist psychologies which recognised the individual consequences of collective oppression , and traced their causes beyond the individual to the mechanisms of that oppression , would have to be developed . |
| 23 | Here a change of social circumstances would be needed if vulnerability were to be reduced . |
| 24 | Applicants for the scholarship were to be interviewed early in November . |
| 25 | Still in the eighteenth century , however , the rather confident and aggressive forces of rationalism were to be shaken into a more humble estimate of the power of human reason itself . |
| 26 | If some oversight were to be established there , then much greater attention would need to be paid to foreign experience . |
| 27 | Two further checks on arbitrary High Authority action were to be offered by the avenues of organised opinion and law . |
| 28 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 29 | It was different from previous work in that main roads were to be included ; public transport as well as walking and cycling were to be considered ; and particular importance was to be attached to the attempt to lower costs and achieve area-wide benefits by applying fewer and simpler measures . |
| 30 | More generous approaches to the question of emancipation were to be found not only in the many unofficial memoranda which were passing from hand to hand , but also in the minds of a few well-placed individuals whose views could hardly be ignored . |