Example sentences of "[noun prp] were to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the 1944 Act did not provide detailed prescription for complementary relationships it was clear from the 1943 Education Bill that the LEAs were to be given the responsibility and duty to secure the development of adult education , in consultation with the universities and voluntary bodies . |
| 2 | If McKinsey were to be taken literally , this structure would have to be taken apart and new structures created around the business units . |
| 3 | Aden radio reported on April 30 , 1990 , the decision that diplomatic relations between South Yemen and the United States were to be restored . |
| 4 | Last , all the vessels found in the island or fetched from Cherbourg were to be brought into Brading harbour laden with stones and sunk the 800-fathom [ 4800-ft ; 1460-m ] fairway that lies between … the outer road of St Helen 's and the inner one of Spithead . |
| 5 | It would seem that she and Johnny were to be allowed no souvenirs smuggled from that other world ; that place which their lives could touch but which they could not see . |
| 6 | Indonesia 's trade and economic relations with Taiwan were to be unaffected by the resumption of ties , although the memorandum noted China 's appreciation that Indonesia had " consistently " recognized the administration of the People 's Republic as the sole government of China , of which Taiwan was an integral part . |
| 7 | Bristol and Plymouth were to be secured by local sympathisers and then James was to arrive somewhere on the south coast , to lead a march to London . |
| 8 | Party cells in the armed forces , the Interior Ministry and the KGB were to be disbanded . |
| 9 | Unable to establish any common ground between his proposals and the radical demands of the Left , Stolypin dissolved the Second Duma on 3 June 1907 and drastically altered the franchise on which subsequent Dumas were to be elected . |
| 10 | Under the CIS agreement signed in December 1991 , all tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine were to be dismantled by July 1 , 1992 , and all strategic weapons by the end of 1994 [ see p. 38655 ] . |
| 11 | Balliol also agreed to repay Edward for the help he had given in preparing the expedition by handing over to him land worth £2,000 a year to be selected from those parts of Scotland adjacent to England : in effect , the southern counties of Scotland were to be permanently ceded to England . |
| 12 | The Commission observed that if the founding principles of the NHS were to be preserved ( health care for all , according to need , free at the point of service ) then the only insurance option would be a compulsory one . |
| 13 | She had hated Dierdriu on the terrible day that Dierdriu had told her that she and Fergus were to be parted . |
| 14 | It was , then , peace or truce which threatened their existence , and it was because of the termination of hostilities between England and France which resulted from the treaty of Brétigny in 1360 , followed as this was in 1364 by the ending of the Navarrese challenge to the royal authority in Normandy and the war of Breton succession , that France , Italy and Spain were to be hosts to the Companies in the 1360s . |
| 15 | The Conference 's working assumption was that all incursions from Lagos were to be resisted ; the reason invariably given was that only the Residents had enough knowledge and experience of the mysteries of Indirect Rule to be entrusted with its execution . |
| 16 | On Sept. 23 Bush said in his address to the UN General Assembly that the equation of Zionism with racism was " to reject Israel itself " , and that if the UN were to be viewed as a peacemaking body , the 1975 UN resolution on the subject [ see p. 27487 ] should be repealed . |
| 17 | The strict pedagogic methods and moral precepts being worked out in 1922 by A. Makarenko at a microcosmic level near Poltava were to be taken over and applied wholesale to Stalin 's Russia in the 1930s . |
| 18 | However , it looked as though the talents of Prost were to be rewarded in 1983 when he went into the final race of the season at Kyalami with four wins to his credit and a two-point lead over Nelson Piquet . |
| 19 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 20 | And his prayer seemed to have been amply answered when the Planetary Guard came for the Valence gang ; though , as is the way with prayers which are answered , there was cause for woe too — for the Valences were to be stripped of their best young fighters . |
| 21 | Such limited logistic installations as were needed west of Singapore were to be built up at Aden , but as few troops as possible would be stationed there . |
| 22 | Suppose Adam were to be arrested before he even reached his father ? |
| 23 | Only Fand was attacked ; Ruth guessed she and Adam were to be taken alive . |
| 24 | If William and Harry were to be brought up in the rather stiff and formal atmosphere of the Palace after suffering the trauma of their parents ' splitting up , they would hardly end up as the secure , well-balanced people the Queen hopes will succeed her . |
| 25 | Perhaps , to convince the doubters , it would be no bad thing if the World Cup final at Melbourne were to be decided by their ‘ glorious human fallibility ’ — a run-out given not out — as millions around the world stare aghast at the reality on their screens and know , in all Heavenly justice , how it should have been . |
| 26 | Outstanding issues between Edward II and Philip were to be resolved and the appointment of a seneschal of Aquitaine from within the Capetian court circle was probably thought to assist the process . |
| 27 | As well as the Americans , Adrian Mitchell , Alex Trocchi , Harry Fainlight , and Michael Horovitz were to be there from Britain . |
| 28 | Interior Minister Jawdat al-Subul announced on Sept. 11 that most of the 99 members of the Prophet Mohammad Army arrested in July and August were to be released as an act of mercy , but that 18 were to stand trial in connection with a car bomb explosion which had injured a policeman ; the group was also suspected of planning to kidnap one of King Hussein 's sons , and to conduct a campaign of bombings and assassinations in an attempt to force the King to oppose the United States-Soviet sponsored Middle East peace process . |
| 29 | He prepared an instruction for the King 's signature , declaring that the Macdonalds of Glencoe were to be pursued ‘ by fire and sword ’ and that troops were to ‘ burn their houses , seize or destroy their goods or cattle , plenishings or clothes , and to cut off the men . ’ |
| 30 | Hostilities between the Chadian army and the Western Armed Forces ( FAO — the military wing of the MDD ) were to end , and people arrested in combat or detained as a result of membership of the MDD were to be released . |