Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 2 | The number of seats in the European Parliament was to be increased from 518 to 567 to take account of German unification . |
| 3 | There is plenty of material about Jacobite activity from those hostile to a Stuart restoration , but since this was a time when immense political advantage was to be gained by tarnishing one 's opponents with the stigma of loyalty to the exiled royal family , such sources must be treated with immense scepticism . |
| 4 | The interim coalition was to be led by a Prime Minister drawn from outside the main parties , and Lukanov 's government was to stay in office until the new government was formed . |
| 5 | Both sides won 11 matches — more than the total achieved by five of the previous six champion counties — but a revealing figure was to be found among the bonus points , where Essex harvested 11 more in the batting column . |
| 6 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 7 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 8 | As will be seen , a British play was to be the making of him . |
| 9 | A clear division was to be made then , with all who served their country being enfranchised and all who refused being disfranchised , in both cases irrespective of age or other considerations ; the war was to be the test and the policy was to be " What did you do in the war , Daddy ? " |
| 10 | Compensation both for planning restrictions ( in cases where a claim had been admitted ) and for compulsory purchase by public authorities was to be paid on the basis of existing use plus any admitted 1947 development value , but private sales would be at current market prices . |
| 11 | Encouragement for small and medium-sized businesses would be accompanied by the " purging of public institutions " , and fresh foreign investment was to be sought . |
| 12 | The crucial point is that the English department was to be elevated , not so much by virtue of its importance within the institution , but because of the role it might be made to occupy in leading , coordinating , and sustaining extra-mural initiatives : |
| 13 | Early in the project there had been considerable discussion among the development officers and their supervisor about the ending of the project , and how the care of on-going clients was to be continued after the withdrawal of the development officers . |
| 14 | If , so far as the Continent is concerned , the Viking impact is essentially a West Frankish phenomenon , that is because the Vikings went where they knew moveable wealth was to be had . |
| 15 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 16 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 17 | Popular initiative was to be deplored : " any revolution which smacks of fanaticism , a violent revolution , a people 's revolution … merely destroys without creating anything new " . |
| 18 | The monk 's daily routine was to be restored to one of manual labour , study and prayer in equal parts . |
| 19 | The number of German troops was to be reduced to 370,000 within three to four years . |
| 20 | No public announcement was to be made until a replacement had been decided upon . |
| 21 | According to a decree of July 12 signed by Adil Carcani , Chairman of the Council of Ministers , some free enterprise was to be permitted in the services and handicrafts sector . |
| 22 | This , rather than a Macaulayish enthusiasm for the export of parliamentary institutions , was the motive for his advocacy , through Congress , of political reform : British authority was to be given a human face by allowing qualified Indians some share in the running of the country . |
| 23 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 24 | The Government 's motion on its press and public relations was to be moved by a District Councillor from Saffron Walden . |
| 25 | The peak associations of business and labour were important in the economic sphere as they controlled resources that were needed by government if public policy was to be effective and capable of implementation and enforcement . |
| 26 | The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern , early in 1931 , made it clear that social democracy was to be regarded as the main enemy . |
| 27 | That autumn , in the New Left Review , Juliet Mitchell was writing her ‘ Women , the longest revolution ’ article , whose impact , eventually , on the new British feminism was to be enormous , but while the Marxist journal was on sale in Indica its message did n't penetrate It — or many other places — in those days . |
| 28 | The social union was to be characterized " by a system of labour law which corresponds to the social market economy and a comprehensive system of social security " . |
| 29 | State expenditure would increase by 10.3 per cent in real terms , and spending on education , justice and public works was to be increased . |
| 30 | But by the time the delegation set out for Paris , the French Draft Constitution had already been rejected — and with it the principle of free consent on which the French Union was to be based — and while he was still en route to France Ho learned that a Provisional Government of Cochinchina had been announced . |