Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 30 Schwarzkopf declared that the allies had achieved complete air supremacy and that the air offensive against enemy ground units was due to be intensified still further . |
| 2 | Eric [ Varley ] talked about energy extremely competently , though he insisted that looking for major energy savings was likely to be ‘ extremely disappointing ’ . |
| 3 | The Local Management of Schools was due to be introduced from 1990 and the Conservative group in had the foresight to see that if the scheme was given a fair wind , and the full support of the Council , it would come to be recognised as one of the greatest reforms of education . |
| 4 | Black had already excluded investment in dwellings , in the social services , and in North Sea oil , on the grounds that investment in these sectors was unlikely to be affected by an accelerator principle . |
| 5 | The Fund 's bi-annual World Economic Outlook released on Sept. 19 warned that although the impact of higher oil prices on industrialized countries was likely to be modest , overall world economic growth was expected to slow to 2 per cent in 1990 ( from 3 per cent in 1989 ) as a result of uncertainties stemming from the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | All the colonists were supposed to feed themselves , though each of the plots was supposed to be left half-covered with forest . |
| 7 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 8 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 9 | However , where major reconstruction was not envisaged , attempting to insert hierarchies into existing networks was likely to be problematical , both in terms of provision of the major distributor roads and the environmental areas between them . |
| 10 | After Easter and many other alarms , when none of the girls was able to be in Great Meadow , Rose had her sister buy a brown Franciscan habit in the town . |
| 11 | A further attempt by Government officials to prolong the procedure after earlier defeats at tribunals was due to be heard in Edinburgh earlier this week . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought the age of miracles was supposed to be past ? ’ |
| 13 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 14 | A sixth round of the ongoing peace negotiations was due to be held soon in Portugal , and both sides predicted that the talks would lead to the agreement of a ceasefire . |
| 15 | As obstruction in these cases is because of the tumoral process itself , we postulated that their longterm patency in benign biliary strictures was likely to be better . |
| 16 | A fourth round of Premiers ' talks was due to be held in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital on Feb. 25-28 , 1991 , although the South 's refusal to cancel the next Team Spirit exercise ( due to begin in January ) made it unclear whether this meeting would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 17 | No one from Office Cleaning Services was available to be interviewed today , but a spokesman pointed out that Mrs Hampton had been advised by her doctor that the work was too stressful for her . |
| 18 | But this would be so only if trade between Member States was liable to be affected . |
| 19 | Still , it should be pointed out that the average Soviet citizen 's contact with the courts was likely to be as unpolitical as that of his or her Western counterpart , and he or she was no more likely to be dealt with unjustly in the run-of-the-mill case ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 192–7 ) . |
| 20 | To a limited and inadequate extent this was recognised in classical criminology : Beccaria acknowledged that the content , as well as the operation , of legal rules was likely to be a significant factor in the degree of compliance that could be expected . |
| 21 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 22 | And it was suggested that this scheme should be presented to us , I thought one of their representatives was supposed to be coming here tonight to present it to us , obviously not been possible . |