Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the focuses for action was to be the revival of the " social dialogue " between employers and trade unions . |
| 2 | An emphasis on its own policy for research was to be one of the CNAA 's most tangible responses to the development of a public sector of higher education . |
| 3 | Monthly premiums for beneficiaries was to be gradually increased from $28.60 to $46.50 by 1995 . |
| 4 | This new form of Unity was to be concerned with foreign policy issues , virtually to the exclusion of the domestic policies contained in the original Unity Manifesto . |
| 5 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 6 | The game structure the teacher planned was a neat ‘ horns of a dilemma ’ situation where the community 's wish to keep their cathedral as a place of sanctuary was to be challenged by the presence of a refuge-seeker who , they suddenly realised , might be the perpetrator of a vicious crime against their own kind . |
| 7 | There was considerable confusion as to whether the relief of widows was to be considered independently of either their late husbands ' failure to provide for them , or of the needs of their children . |
| 8 | Although the final decision on the choice of chairman was to be made by the Republican National Committee in January , most observers believed that , with Bush 's endorsement , the selection of Bennett was a formality . |
| 9 | International Literacy Year 1990 , whose programme of activities was to be co-ordinated by UNESCO [ for its announcement in 1987 see p. 35925 ] , was launched on Dec. 6 , 1989 . |
| 10 | These solutions implied considerable redevelopment in the central , older parts , but it remained unclear as to just what form of renewal was to be adopted either in land use or visual terms , Town planning as an art form may have taken considerable strides in suburban or garden city situations . |
| 11 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 12 | In this last case there would , of course be no indication to the foreign learner that the pair of words was to be treated as a compound . |
| 13 | But much more needed to be done if the CEGB 's post-Sizewell tide of optimism was to be turned . |
| 14 | The old belief that one major source of crime was to be found in poor social conditions , for example , was not supported … |
| 15 | A whole range of styles was to be recycled into a sort of architectural digest of Italianate Gothic , Romanesque , ‘ Queen Anne ’ , and Venetian . |
| 16 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 17 | The major scene of confrontation was to be Portadown . |
| 18 | Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 . |
| 19 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 20 | The plan of campaign was to be kept simple and direct . |
| 21 | In the twelfth century , the author of Glanvill , describing the manner in which a complaint of rape was to be made , had the rape of virgins in mind when he wrote : ‘ A woman who suffers in this way must go , soon after the deed is done , to the nearest vill and there show to trustworthy men the injury done to her , and any effusion of blood there may be … ’ |
| 22 | The existing age of transfer was to be kept at eleven to keep the time in grammar school to at least four years , since the ‘ new ’ school leaving age was to be fifteen . |
| 23 | A knowledge of geometry was to be highly prized because it could help one to visualize the geometrical forms alluded to in Scripture . |
| 24 | And there the highest level of illiteracy was to be found in Pomerania : between 1921 and 1931 the Poles reduced illiteracy in Pomerania from 5.2 per cent to 4.3 per cent . |
| 25 | This diversity of opinion was to be expected . |
| 26 | Previously , the surest way of getting plenty of attention was to be naughty . |
| 27 | An aerial photographic survey of Argentina was to be carried out " in co-operation with the US government " to detect clandestine landing strips , coca plantations and other evidence of trade in narcotics . |
| 28 | Five gallons of wine was to be levied on every half acre of land , and there was to be an additional tax on manpower . |
| 29 | Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone made Willie Ormond 's period as Scotland manager into a nightmare of infuriating incidents and in the '60s , the city of Turin was to be treated to some memorable scandals when Denis Law and Joe Baker both signed for the Italian League side Torino . |
| 30 | This was the last time that the age-old splendour of Abyssinia was to be on view . |