Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever slew a hart or hind was to be blinded . |
| 2 | When a special event or a victory like the Nile , Trafalgar or Waterloo was to be announced , the Mail Coach and horses were decorated with laurels and a red flag floated from the roof of the coach . |
| 3 | This rebellion had two main foci : the Viceroyalties of the Rio de la Plata and of New Granada , where resistance was to be symbolized by Bolívar , the greatest of the liberators of Latin America . |
| 4 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 5 | His objective was to challenge what he called ‘ the liberal theory of the state ’ which ‘ assumed that in political society where anarchy was to be avoided there must be a supreme authority which gives orders to all and receives orders from none ’ . |
| 6 | Anselm was determined to make the clearest possible break with past practice : henceforth no priest or deacon was to be allowed , on any pretext whatsoever , to have a wife and continue to carry out his duties , and he had prepared an elaborate series of provisional arrangements to cope with the shortage of qualified priests under the new regulations . |
| 7 | Like so many others , Baron de Tracy knew which way the wind blew and where gain was to be had . |
| 8 | The worst fate that could befall any relative or follower was to be declared a ‘ broken man ’ : that is , either by punitive official proceedings or by some family banishment , to be removed from the protection of the surname and so become an outlaw , fair prey for any enemy , English or Scottish . |
| 9 | But whenever the behaviour of either Christians or Muslims was to be challenged in the future , the Covenant itself would inevitably be called into question . |
| 10 | Understandably so , for these problems were grave indeed : the Kennedys had been killed , likewise Dr King ; the streets of Paris and London were furious with the sounds of protest ; the cities and university towns of America were in turmoil : race relations , the draft , mind-expanding drugs , the Weather Underground , Dylan , Daley , psychedelia , the National Guard ; a cause for a riot , bomb or occupation was to be found everywhere , every day . |
| 11 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 12 | Just a month later however , this great work was threatened by an advertisement in the Mercury which stated that another plan of Manchester & Salford was to be on the market and carried out by J. Oldham . |
| 13 | After a week of confusion , warnings of constitutional crisis and outrage over the possibility that Parliament was to be bypassed , Foreign Secretary Hurd turned urbanity and understatement into performance art . |
| 14 | It is clear that money was to be made honestly at this profession ; even clearer that forgery and other types of fraud were frequently used by moneyers as short-cuts to wealth . |
| 15 | He was only too thankful that Sarah was to be removed from his home . |
| 16 | Since it was revealed that Middlesbrough was to be given environment city status the borough council has organised a number of initiatives to help improve the town . |
| 17 | The Declaration envisaged the abolition of all tariffs within the zone , although Ecuador was to be permitted to dismantle its strongly protectionist system in two stages — 50 per cent of its tariffs would be lifted by the end of 1991 , and the remainder by June 30 , 1992 . |
| 18 | The English , with no hope now of consummating the Rough Wooing , finally withdrew ; but the French were proving almost equally unwelcome , provoking fears among committed Protestant reformers that Scotland was to be swallowed up by yet another powerful nation , and this one Papist . |
| 19 | An agreement was later made with the administrations of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland that Lusaka was to be the centre for broadcasting to Africans in the three territories . |
| 20 | In this case Lord Parker L.C.J. held in effect that consent was to be assessed differently in the case of girls under 16 . |
| 21 | In 1911 the inaugural conference of the National Council of Public Morals ( NCPM ) announced that prevention rather than punishment was to be the keynote in the regeneration of the nation 's moral life . |
| 22 | The L & NWR Loco Committee Minutes of 9 February 1847 state that water was to be supplied to tenants willing to pay an extra rent of 2p per week . |
| 23 | The principle that education was to be open to all , irrespective of means ; public galleries and museums should be open to all , the National Health Service likewise . |
| 24 | This makes a mockery of one of the aims demonstrated by Seona Reid , director of the Scottish Arts Council for the development of the arts in Scotland , when she says that quality was to be rewarded wherever found . |
| 25 | Parliament ordered his arrest in February 1644 after he clashed at Paul 's Cross with the Presbyterian Cornelius Burges [ q.v. ] , and he was soon in trouble again for preaching , allegedly , that Christ was to be found even ‘ in hogs , and dogs , or sheep ’ . |
| 26 | ( 42 ) If he was small enough to sell his Lord for so little , how account for the remorse which led him to suicide when he realized that Christ was to be slain ? |
| 27 | ( The Iraqis had themselves declared on Sept. 24 that Bush was to be put on trial in mid-October for war crimes against Palestinians through US co-operation with the " Zionist entity " and for killings in Panama and Grenada . ) |
| 28 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 29 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 30 | When he saw that Mass was to be in the Lady Chapel he moved across and sat in the back row . |