Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever emigres were to be welcomed back , as is suddenly the case in Czechoslovakia , he could have an important role in economic planning . |
| 2 | Hence dropouts were to be accepted as a fact of life and the curriculum designed particularly with the needs of higher levels in mind . |
| 3 | Sixty years later others were to be accused of making this same oversight . |
| 4 | Now councils were to be targeted individually , rather than as a group . |
| 5 | The criteria , whereby resources were to be allocated , were shifted from decisions based on assessment of need by doctors and managers towards outcomes based on competition and market forces . |
| 6 | Central to Danish concerns about Maastricht were ( i ) greater subsidiarity , whereby decisions were to be taken at the level " closest to the citizen " [ see also p. 39158 ] , and ( ii ) greater transparency or openness in the operation of EC institutions . |
| 7 | No specific details were given , however , on how problems were to be tackled . |
| 8 | The Institute would be in a strong position , and the NVQ Committee would decide how assessments were to be done with a City and Guilds involvement . |
| 9 | That would not only cost a great deal of money , but put power once again into the hands of the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Health Service Employees , which could then decide how hospitals were to be run . |
| 10 | Sir Ian Gilmour , sacked from the Cabinet in September 1981 , was on both main television news bulletins on 10 January , telling viewers that being a good listener was not one of Mrs Thatcher 's virtues , and that there had been ‘ a downgrading of Cabinet government ’ ; Cabinet meetings were something to be got through , not the place where views were to be aired and decisions reached . |
| 11 | But soon she would have reached the stage where she would deliberately avoid going to places where birds were to be found at ground level — such as the local park . |
| 12 | RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used . |
| 13 | While a sleep-deprived subject at the Walter Reed Institute was able to respond as quickly in a simple reaction-time task as when rested , his pattern of responses over an extended series of trials , with the experimenter determining when stimuli were to be presented , would include an increasing number of very slow responses . |
| 14 | There was an even greater tendency to give names of plane shapes in this task than when names were to be provided for pictures of 3-D mathematical shapes . |
| 15 | When she took it from the oven she was pleased with it , but later , placing it on the trestle table in the hall where refreshments were to be served , she saw that Sister Dew 's was higher . |
| 16 | Wherever Jews were to be found — whether in the Holy Land or in the far-flung Diaspora — his name had become a household word as one of the select band of zealots whose spirit had never relinquished the hope of one day setting up a Jewish state in Palestine . |