Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan announced that MX missiles were to be grouped together to frustrate attack by missiles . |
| 2 | In 1850 his eldest son David became a partner and soon six brothers were to be involved in the firm in various capacities . |
| 3 | Particular outstanding work is dealing with changes to the Community Charge Register which have to be reflected in the Council Tax liabilities , approximately 30,000 changes were to be processed in this area . |
| 4 | Each of the 10 counties were to be allocated a seat , with two each for exiled parties . |
| 5 | Only eight weeks before the sale , Christie 's announced that sixty-six drawings were to be auctioned without first being offered to any national institution by their owner , Viscount Coke . |
| 6 | Neil Clarke , chair of British Coal , announced on Oct. 13 that production was to cease at 31 of the corporation 's 50 pits over the next five months ( including four which were to be mothballed ) and that up to 30,000 jobs were to be lost . |
| 7 | Seven Hurricanes and eight pilots were to be sent , but at El Abqar , where refuelling took place , Plt.Off . |
| 8 | Throughout July and August the Khmers Rouges maintained their boycott of phase two of the October 1991 UN peace process , under which 70 per cent of the country 's estimated 200,000 fighters were to be assembled and disarmed [ see p. 38864 ] . |
| 9 | To assist the EEC in these objectives , three funds were to be set up : a European Social Fund to develop ‘ employment opportunities for workers ’ and to raise their standard of living ; a European Investment Bank to further economic expansion through the use of loans and guarantees ; and a European Development Fund targeted upon the associated French overseas territories . |
| 10 | However , the fact that 90 seats were to be reserved for workers , peasants , scientists , intellectuals , artists , students and ethnic minorities " active in the revolution " ( all of whom were expected to be NSF supporters drawn from its 145-member Council ) led to opposition accusations that the NSF meant to retain power . |
| 11 | An Essex Police spokesman said the three men were to be praised for their swift action following the raid . |
| 12 | Six hundred thousand ducats were to be brought ashore at Saltash , while at Fowey the Spanish sailors themselves helped to unload two pinnaces of twenty thousand gold reals , which were carried to Place House before forwarding to London . |
| 13 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 14 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 15 | Seventeen premiums were to be awarded . |
| 16 | Hawick secretary John Thorburn said : ‘ From a personal viewpoint I could not see there being sufficient Saturdays for five successive sevens tournaments to be held in April if the Five Nations were to be moved . |
| 17 | Two tutors training sessions had been held and five candidates were to be examined on 28th October . |
| 18 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 19 | This second Committee meeting learned that nine holes were to be opened as soon as possible . |
| 20 | To achieve this , it was announced in 1985 that five CATS were to be created in the Partnership areas of England . |
| 21 | Under the 15-month plan recommended by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali , 15,900 military personnel , 3,600 civilian police officers and 2,400 civilians were to be sent to Cambodia to monitor the ceasefire , to disarm the combatants of all four Cambodian factions and supervise the cantonment of the remaining armies , to take over the running of key ministries and police forces , and to organize elections in April 1993 . |
| 22 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |
| 23 | Twenty ships were to be sent with grain supplies to Gascony , and an expedition there was to be headed by the earls of Lancaster , Lincoln , and Warwick , along with Hugh Despenser ( later Earl of Winchester , q.v . ) . |
| 24 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 25 | Two companies were to be formed from the CEGB 's generating activities . |
| 26 | The Argentinian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mario Campora , was named as the new ambassador to the UK and visa restrictions between the two countries were to be abolished . |
| 27 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but I thought the last two places were to be filled by working scientists . ’ |
| 28 | In the 593-member House of Representatives , the SDP won 314 seats , the NRC 275 , and four seats were to be settled at by-elections . |
| 29 | Two commissions were to be established to facilitate progress in these areas . |
| 30 | As in the ECSC , the two executives were to be supported and supplemented by a consultative committee representing the several national interest groups . |