Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking at Hull on 6 June Stafford Cripps outlined the new tactics which were to be followed by the Unity Campaign Committee . |
| 2 | Those who were now beginning to pay lay subsidies might think about that wealth and this statute , particularly about its words contrasting the defence of the realm with the endowment of the church — words which were to be echoed by Wyclif in the 1370s and in a royal grant as late as the 1440s . |
| 3 | A city 's Academy typically funded its Salon , chose the pictures which were to be exhibited , and awarded medals to prizewinners . |
| 4 | A number of demands which were to be raised by the civil rights movement were taken up by the manifesto . |
| 5 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 6 | Grey seals are reputed to breed in this area but despite many orbits none were to be seen . |
| 7 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |
| 8 | When I spoke with Mike Spring , creator and master planner of this new and important Hyperion series about a year ago , he was full of enthusiasm about the music and artists which were to be recruited to perform it . |
| 9 | The minister had , in fact , outlined a programme of some 1,823 new houses , including corporation , NIHT and private developments , but 1,300 of these were to replace houses which were to be demolished in redevelopment , so that the plans did not envisage wiping out the existing demand for houses . |
| 10 | Romanians would be given the chance to take up an ownership stake in a POF — a kind of embryonic mutual fund — by registering the privatization vouchers which were to be issued to all eligible citizens . |
| 11 | The Cecchini Report established the main barriers which were to be removed by implementing Article 13 of the SEA . |
| 12 | This was the first of many long sieges which were to be characteristic of the war . |
| 13 | And it was striking that in both instances the referenda did stimulate a serious and extensive debate about the matters which were to be decided on — or at least voted on . |
| 14 | In 1985 he was charged with other offences which were to be tried in the High Court of Hong Kong , but the prosecution encountered difficulties in bringing the case to trial . |
| 15 | The parliament of 1337 culminated in a series of festivities in which Edward honoured many of the nobles who were to be his companions in arms . |
| 16 | This second expedition to Benghazi is not mentioned in any official documents and it has all the hallmarks of a David Stirling private-enterprise job , especially in view of the personnel who were to be involved . |
| 17 | However , he emphasised that Ukraine wanted a share of the resources allocated to the former Soviet Union by Germany , for resettling on its territory some of the former Soviet servicemen who were to be withdrawn from Germany by 1994 [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 18 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 19 | One frequent request was for containers in which to put belongings which were to be stored at Bloomsbury House : ‘ Alice needs 2 wooden boxes and 1 cardboard container in which to put all her belongings … ’ |
| 20 | It was also used to aid selecting cosmid clones which were to be used as probes on the cosmid filters . |
| 21 | In return Mafart and Prieur had their sentences commuted to three years which were to be served in exile at the French military base on the Pacific island of Hao . |
| 22 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 23 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 24 | As Lord Diplock said in Ashington Piggeries : The " description " by which unascertained goods are sold is , in my view , confined to those words in the contract which were intended by the parties to identify the kind of goods which were to be supplied . |
| 25 | Many of the affected sites included training areas , barracks , recreational facilities and supply depots , but some involved airfields and support areas for sophisticated weaponry such as Pershing II missiles which were to be destroyed under the recent arms agreements with the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | While the idea of the two-stage revolution : liberation first , communism later : could be described as primitive Leninism , it may be seen that Ho 's approach to Communism was also two-track : town and country : not necessarily in that order : and his Revolutionary Youth League also functioned on two levels : the mass nationalist party and the inner core of Tam Tam Xa hotheads who were to be the nucleus of a future communist party . |
| 27 | This has been cleared over a width sufficient for the new track , but leaving those bushes and trees which were to be retained to form part of the landscape of the line . |
| 28 | This has been cleared over a width sufficient for the new track , but leaving those bushes and trees which were to be retained to form part of the landscape of the line . |
| 29 | This was true of the declared intention to establish not just a common commercial policy once the transitional period had been concluded , but also of objectives which were to be sought during the transitional phase : a common transport policy , free movement of workers , and a common agricultural policy . |
| 30 | The sellers had agreed to sell a quantity of tinned pears which were to be packed in cases containing 30 tins each . |