Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis Gunn provided civil servants with a number of conditions which would have to be satisfied if perfect implementation of policies were to be achieved ( Hogwood and Gunn , 1984 , pp. 198–206 ; see also Hood , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Individuals ' social security insurance contributions were to be increased , while those of employers were to be reduced by 7 per cent . |
| 3 | Two thousand acres of coppices were to be enclosed and planted with oak and beech , and a ‘ rolling programme ’ of further enclosures was projected as the trees matured . |
| 4 | In spite of some very idealistic pronouncements and general high hopes , it soon became apparent that the best efforts of the League of Nations were to be frustrated with ease by the fundamental and unresolved differences of opinion as to the exact meaning of Free City status . |
| 5 | The exploits of the doctor and his household of animals were to be recorded in twelve books , always set in England at some unspecified time in the middle of the last century . |
| 6 | By the time the order to push forward was given , Turkish forces had moved up ; and here also thousands of lives were to be lost to gain positions which had , in effect , already been won . |
| 7 | The Market on Saturday evenings provided much entertainment as always a number of cheapjacks were to be found selling all sorts of items . |
| 8 | In order to effect these objectives a number of changes were to be made in the provision and funding of social care . |
| 9 | Around 35 per cent of goods were to be sold at unregulated prices , or at prices agreed between supplier and retailer , while prices for a range of other goods ( including food staples such as milk , eggs and sugar ) , and public transport fares , were to rise to a new fixed level . |
| 10 | Even if the number of households were to be suddenly increased , if , for example , all households consisting of more than one family were to split into single-family households , there would apparently still be a crude surplus of dwellings . |
| 11 | These kinds of objectives were to be attained by public-sector pump-priming investment designed to lever out private resources . |
| 12 | If the sample is carefully selected , then the pattern of scores obtained by the sample ought to provide a close match for the pattern of scores which would be obtained if the whole population of children were to be tested . |
| 13 | The president ( who would also chair the Council of Ministers ) , the vice-president , the prime minister , and the secretary and vice-chairman of the council of ministers were to be elected from different ethnic backgrounds and political groups . |
| 14 | More controversially , and following Hayek and other critics of socialist collectivism , the group went on to argue that complete state ownership led to ‘ totalitarian forms of government ’ , and that a wide variety of forms of property , including private ownership , was necessary if the personal liberties of citizens were to be securely protected . |
| 15 | According to the Ministry of Finance , the first shares in enterprises were to be offered to individuals and corporate shareholders . |
| 16 | The Noise Abatement Society , a pressure group devoted to making Britain quieter , was surprised to find that demonstrators outside embassies were to be treated like owners of ghetto blasters and howling dogs . |
| 17 | Wartime rules stated that only token payment plus expenses were to be paid , but clubs , like any other employers , can choose to be as generous or mean with expenses as with wages . |
| 18 | If speed reducing measures such as humps were to be applied to other residential roads , then all manner of surface treatments for safety and environmental improvement — including shared spaces where appropriate — become feasible . |
| 19 | In the Barlow Clowes case Millett J agreed , and added ‘ that the proper and efficient functioning of the process of compulsory liquidation would be jeopardised if transcripts of the formal interviews of witnesses carried out by liquidators were to be made generally available to defendants to criminal proceedings ’ . |