Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever slew a hart or hind was to be blinded . |
| 2 | When a special event or a victory like the Nile , Trafalgar or Waterloo was to be announced , the Mail Coach and horses were decorated with laurels and a red flag floated from the roof of the coach . |
| 3 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 4 | Anselm was determined to make the clearest possible break with past practice : henceforth no priest or deacon was to be allowed , on any pretext whatsoever , to have a wife and continue to carry out his duties , and he had prepared an elaborate series of provisional arrangements to cope with the shortage of qualified priests under the new regulations . |
| 5 | The worst fate that could befall any relative or follower was to be declared a ‘ broken man ’ : that is , either by punitive official proceedings or by some family banishment , to be removed from the protection of the surname and so become an outlaw , fair prey for any enemy , English or Scottish . |
| 6 | But whenever the behaviour of either Christians or Muslims was to be challenged in the future , the Covenant itself would inevitably be called into question . |
| 7 | Understandably so , for these problems were grave indeed : the Kennedys had been killed , likewise Dr King ; the streets of Paris and London were furious with the sounds of protest ; the cities and university towns of America were in turmoil : race relations , the draft , mind-expanding drugs , the Weather Underground , Dylan , Daley , psychedelia , the National Guard ; a cause for a riot , bomb or occupation was to be found everywhere , every day . |
| 8 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 9 | Just a month later however , this great work was threatened by an advertisement in the Mercury which stated that another plan of Manchester & Salford was to be on the market and carried out by J. Oldham . |
| 10 | However , continued investment of raw materials and capital goods was required if the necessary growth and investment was to be sustained . |
| 11 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 12 | Classes were allocated and Balbinder was to be in class 1 with a Mrs Allinson and a nursery assistant . |
| 13 | They had left school that summer , not wishing to study any more , and Fontanellato was to be their home until the end of the war . |
| 14 | Where these three conditions were n't met then policy erm reducing interest and rents was to be taking place . |
| 15 | What was good for catholics was also good for protestants , and Ireland was to be no exception . |
| 16 | The work of Hume , Kant and Lessing was to be of especial significance for theology ; for while they undermined the earlier kind of rationalism by restricting the claims and powers of reason and pointing to the sheer variety and diversity of history , they raised equally sharp questions for theologians . |
| 17 | Sabine Jourdain had been killed because of what she was prepared to say , Barbara Coleman had been kept out of the way because of what she knew and Rain was to be killed before she could publish the story . |
| 18 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |
| 19 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 20 | Diplomatic representatives were to reside in Edo , and trade was to be free of official intervention , with more ports due to be opened in future years . |
| 21 | The system of licensing and control was to be operated by the Director of Fair Trading . |
| 22 | The boy saw what fun and mischief was to be had . |
| 23 | Instead , Edwin Chadwick 's aim of 1834 to give separate specialized care to deserving children , the aged , sick and lunatic was to be implemented . |
| 24 | It coexisted with an ardently self-purifying ethos , where every emotion in literature and life was to be tried and tested against moral examples offered by the great poets and novelists of past time : by Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience , by George Eliot 's Middlemarch , by the fiction ( above all ) of D. H. Lawrence . |
| 25 | Stamp duty on most house sales was effectively suspended for eight months ; building societies and banks agreed to put up some £750-£1,000 million for rent-back or similar schemes to help mortgage payers who were in difficulties ; and legislation was to be introduced to make possible the direct payment of mortgage interest by the government to lenders where borrowers were in receipt of ( social security ) income support . |
| 26 | English fiction in 1945 was already beginning to return to its eighteenth-century roots — a return confirmed soon after by Kingsley Amis , John Wain and Iris Murdoch , where the realism of Defoe and Fielding was to be self-consciously revived . |
| 27 | Henceforth , unreformed parishes were to be grouped into Unions , with Boards of Guardians directing policy , and relief was to be refused outside the workhouse . |
| 28 | The rumour was going round that a new tax on cattle and horse-ownership was to be introduced . |
| 29 | This new era which opened the century in both Britain and America was to be characterized by an increased politicization of the city as political parties widened their hold , by an increased interest in every aspect of city life , and by increased regulation through political and philanthropic agencies . |
| 30 | Such a move towards greater political integration was seen by Lord Scarman as essential if the gap between inner-city residents and the forces of law and order was to be bridged . |