Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] was to be " in BNC.

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1 After 1934 this was to be combined with the anti-semitic obsession of both ultra-conservative reactionary fascism and racial nationalist traditions in the BUF , despite the fact that it was expressed in slightly less virulent form and appeared to have more social roots .
2 These were now reduced to 56 million , of which only 22 million was to be cut from unemployment benefits .
3 Although much of the dissent of 1855 and early 1856 was to be found in obscure memoranda written by one bureaucrat for another , manuscripts circulated by hand among the intelligentsia , and a journal which came out in faraway London , the Russian government also had reason to worry about dissent with a high public profile .
4 At the same time , the curriculum through which all this was to be achieved remained remarkably unexplored and neglected ; and in many respects this in itself was a comment on the nature of the reformers ' aims and aspirations .
5 A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict .
6 All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target .
7 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 .
8 By 19 August , the Big Five had reluctantly agreed to economies of 79 million , of which nearly 50 million was to be met by cuts in unemployment benefits ; the remainder of the budget would be balanced by additional taxation .
9 In more ways than one 1979 was to be a momentous year for me .
10 Furthermore , in February 1711 , as part of a general move to increase revenue , it was decided to sell the " Commons and Waste Grounds " of Stockport , sufficient to yield about £60 a year ; of this , one sixth was to be paid to the Mayor towards defrayment of the costs of his office , and another sixth to the Schoolmaster , while the remaining two thirds were devoted to the poor of the town .
11 How steady this was to be I could not have known .
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