Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts . |
| 2 | The Sverdlov-class of cruiser , of which 22 were to be built , was an extremely versatile type of warship . |
| 3 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 4 | The Bristol 167 was to be Britain 's great new advance on American types such as the Lockheed Constellation and Douglas DC-6 , which did not have the range to fly the Atlantic non-stop . |
| 5 | Alice also said it would be a good thing if all the rubbish remaining in No. 45 were to be disposed of , for it gave such a bad impression . |
| 6 | The US helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky signed an agreement with Turkey reported to be worth US$1,100 million on Dec. 8 for the sale and co-production of Black Hawk helicopters ; 45 were to be delivered in 1993 and 50 produced in Turkey over four years . |
| 7 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
| 8 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 9 | By agreement between the foster mother and the local authority the hearing of the substantive application for judicial review commenced on 11 December 1991 was to be treated as the hearing of the applications under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 , and the foster mother agreed to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review if leave were granted . |
| 10 | In more ways than one 1979 was to be a momentous year for me . |
| 11 | Of these , 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps . |
| 12 | Subsequently , the three were to be released on the grounds that the statements of King and others had prejudiced their case . |
| 13 | A further three were to be built at the old carding mill at a gross rental of £10 per annum . |
| 14 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher 's election to Party Leader in 1975 was to be immensely significant in the context of post-war politics : the tradition of consensual , one-nation government ( which had dominated Conservative governments since 1951 ) was , if not to disappear , to become far less dominant . |
| 16 | Strand two brought in the Irish government and strand three was to be between the UK and Irish governments . |
| 17 | But the establishment of the bloc system in the late 1940s was to be a sad end to visions of the New World — Western or Eastern — restoring the balance of the Old . |
| 18 | After the defeat of 1918 the policies of Frederick , Bismarck and Wilhelm II were to be taken up and extended quite logically ; the search for identity , for colonial holdings , the logic of industrial expansion , the ‘ question ’ of the eastern marches would all be solved and resolved in the Endlösung . |
| 19 | Stages I and II were to be directed to the improvement of tribunals by the strengthening of their personnel , and in particular by appointing lawyer chairmen , with a senior chairman appointed for each region . |
| 20 | The minimum levels for Key Stages 1 to 4 were to be , respectively , levels 1,2,3 and 4 . |
| 21 | Of the remaining seats , 152 would be elected on a proportional basis from county and metropolitan lists , and 58 were to be indirectly elected from national " compensation " lists nominated by the parties . |
| 22 | The examination of the performance of standard in-rack systems led to the realisation that systems giving a much quicker and better-directed response to fire were necessary if the performance requirements of section 6.3 were to be met . |
| 23 | The public transport safety target would not be achieved if single-pilot public transport operations by pilots over sixty were to be permitted . |
| 24 | The consequences of Lloyd George 's containment of pacifism in the early months of 1918 were to be inscribed in the history of Europe over succeeding decades — down to 1945 if not beyond . |
| 25 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 26 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |
| 27 | The senate was to have 60 members : 11 were to be directly appointed by the Prime Minister , or Taoiseach , and 49 by election . |
| 28 | After spending part of the summer at Baden with Constanze , Mozart decided to go on speculation to Frankfurt am Main , where Leopold II was to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 9 October . |
| 29 | Leopold II was to be crowned King of Bohemia in Prague in October , and a suitable opera was hastily required — in less than two months . |
| 30 | 1957 was to be the really Super Year ! |