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

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1 Along with other major applications within the company , the new Payroll/Personnel System was to be designed and developed using on-line database techniques , in particular the IBM database/data communications management system , IMS .
2 Just pausing there for a moment , can you point out to Mr Inspector where that er building was to be developed , Mrs ?
3 For Wales , however , with its smaller local authorities , an ad hoc agency was to be created ( this became the Land Authority for Wales ) .
4 But Tony Franjieh 's rise was to be short-lived .
5 Bobby Simpson 's judgement was to be proved right …
6 Mason J. went on to explain the reasons why , in that case , the minister 's function was to be exercised by him personally .
7 She stressed that middle-class ladies needed to unite with their poorer sisters if men 's immorality was to be effectively challenged .
8 His mother , now Mrs Bonnie , knew young Vernon 's vocation was to be a religious leader .
9 Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money .
10 It was on the northern borders of France and the Empire , moreover , that the last act in the drama of John 's defeat was to be played out — at Bouvines on 27 July 1214 , when the coalition between the Plantagenets , Flanders and the German Empire was routed by philip Augustus 's army .
11 But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today .
12 A crisp voice informed him that the arrangement between Chemical and Virgin over the financing of Virgin 's aircraft was to be terminated forthwith , and the aircraft given back to Boeing .
13 Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday .
14 She lived to regret what she regarded as her weakness , for the child 's fate was to be so terrible that his existence had to be denied in her own mind .
15 Orton 's philosophy was to be ‘ a fly on the wall ’ .
16 As Virgin 's accountant , Jack Claydon , observed , Branson 's attitude was to be looking ahead all the time .
17 Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it .
18 But it meant that an important part of Belinda 's work was to be on the alert for this kind of upset and do everything she could to minimise its effect .
19 For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours .
20 But four-fifths of Europe 's population was to be found in six states .
21 At least Ferdinando 's reaction was to be penitent and vow he would not visit the caffè again .
22 A spokeswoman for the Anti-Nazi League , which co-ordinated last night 's vigil , said today 's rally was to be held in Millwall Park .
23 In the examination of that June 1925 ( Classics Part I ) Ramsey 's name was to be found in the second class .
24 And though she was not surprised that , for the sake of appearances , Jake 's fiancée was to be installed in one of the guest-rooms , it did surprise her that he had chosen the rose room .
25 It is common ground that there was no ‘ good cause ’ within the meaning of section 34 ; the university was relying on the three months ' notice term contained in the letter of appointment coupled with the provision in section 34(3) that Mr. Page 's tenure was to be subject to the terms of the appointment .
26 Robert Holland senior held moderately extensive estates in his county and played an active part in its government , but his son 's career was to be altogether more exceptional .
27 " The subject of tonight 's debate was to be " Should the Game of Football be encouraged in the Bridgend District . "
28 At the conference Mr Berge was flanked by Daniel Bareboim 's replacement , the Korean conductor , Myung-Whun Chung Mr Berge 's role was to be cocky and confident and dismiss scepticism about the chances of the opera house becoming a permanent reality .
29 SMR 's role was to be taken over by the Shackleton-equipped Maritime Operational Training Unit at Kinloss and the unit was scheduled to disband in September 1956 with the remaining Lancs being ferried to Wroughton to await their fate .
30 The ‘ central element ’ of the new government 's policy was to be the creation of a national human rights commission .
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