Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persons tending cattle were to be required to have certificates for animals found outside of their branded subdivisions . |
| 2 | Import tariffs were to be changed and income tax reforms implemented . |
| 3 | But in the cut-throat world of fashion up and coming designers were to be feared — and already Gary 's reputation was growing . |
| 4 | State publications were to be instructed and private publications " stimulated " to present the activities of the authorities in a favourable light . |
| 5 | In his New Year address Iliescu announced that collective and state farms were to be largely privatized , and that a five-day working week would be introduced in March ( most Romanians had been required under Ceausescu to work a six- or even a seven-day week ) . |
| 6 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 7 | Standing groups were to be sub-divided into : |
| 8 | Generally speaking , DCSLs advised on availability , choice and the mechanics of acquisition , down to and including the precise way in which order forms were to be completed , but in at least one case the DCSL involved herself more fully in the policy-making deliberations of the school library committee . |
| 9 | During 1992 some 5,500 of the proposed 19,500 state housing units were to be constructed in occupied territories . |
| 10 | But not all admitted claims were to be met , even where loss of development value was caused by refusal of planning permission or by conditions attached to a permission . |
| 11 | All new keyboards of composing machines were to be operated by male union labour , and fifty per cent of upmaking and correction on keyboard material was to be done by men . |
| 12 | Planning policies were to be changed to encourage a mix of different kinds of housing , and this would be backed up by better policing , job creation programmes and incentives for shopkeepers to move to depressed areas . |
| 13 | Export processing zones were to be developed with World Bank and African Development Bank assistance . |
| 14 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 15 | Nonpaying peasants were to be arrested in minimal numbers , and only millers were to be imprisoned . |