Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were to be a programme of comparable generosity to the new democracies , it would be necessary to reduce some category of expenditure within the industrial countries . |
| 2 | There were to be twenty-five surface ships , each armed with eight Polaris missiles . |
| 3 | The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget . |
| 4 | There were to be no aisles , crosses or altars ; the pulpit must be against the end wall facing the congregation . |
| 5 | There were to be a lot of evacuations in the coming years , by land , sea and air , each accompanied by promises from departing residents that their absence would only be temporary . |
| 6 | After the Poema there were to be no more serious attempts to re-tell the life of El Cid with any fidelity to actual events . |
| 7 | There were to be stalls , Guide and Brownie plays , competitions , a Brownie magic pool , fancy-dress parades and various other exciting things . |
| 8 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | There were to be no Cup ties . |
| 10 | There were to be two aisles , one at each side of a central block of pews and then pews at each side . |
| 11 | At the local level there were to be branch juvenile exchanges and wherever possible branch care committees , and the duties of both corresponded to those of their London counterparts . |
| 12 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 13 | There were to be diversionary rebellions in Scotland and the north of England , supported perhaps by spontaneous risings in other areas like the already restive Midlands , but the main effort was to be in the south-west , centred on Bath . |
| 14 | There were to be times when education was to be secondary to his role as a mediator . |
| 15 | There were to be no negotiations with Willingdon . |
| 16 | To start with , there were to be 80 attainment targets per child , and the tests were to take 30 hours . |
| 17 | ‘ I heard there were to be fireworks , ’ Sean said . |
| 18 | On one side of the animal there were to be letters and a number which would identify the revenue district , sub-division and village of the animal . |
| 19 | There were to be no male heirs for Thomas — indeed , he was to father only one robust child who would survive into old age , as we shall see shortly . |
| 20 | And the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Albemarle Street was that day announcing that there were to be eight lectures given by Mr. Faraday on Static or Franklinic Electricity , to commence on 21 April . |
| 21 | There were to be no mechanical or electrical improvements . |
| 22 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 23 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 24 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 25 | There were to be no more transactions with them . |
| 26 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 27 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 28 | The linen on the beds was to be changed once in fourteen days , and there were to be three blankets and one quilt to each bed . |
| 29 | There were to be mixed commissions whose deliberations would be sent to bishops and experts for comment , while a new committee would oversee collaboration between the commissions . |
| 30 | There were to be four principal elements to that strategy : ( 1 ) a substantial reduction in taxes ; ( 2 ) heavy cuts in the rate of growth of public spending ; ( 3 ) deregulation reform ; and ( 4 ) the establishment of a sound monetary policy . |