Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Route 4 — West Croydon — Penge was to be abandoned and competing bus services 12 and 75 were to be strengthened . |
| 2 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 3 | In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades . |
| 4 | The factory which opened in 1986 at Washington , Tyne and Wear was capable of assembling 24,000 cars only and these were to be constructed from ‘ kits ’ imported from Japan . |
| 5 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 6 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 7 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 8 | Of the remaining seats , 152 would be elected on a proportional basis from county and metropolitan lists , and 58 were to be indirectly elected from national " compensation " lists nominated by the parties . |
| 9 | Stages I and II were to be directed to the improvement of tribunals by the strengthening of their personnel , and in particular by appointing lawyer chairmen , with a senior chairman appointed for each region . |
| 10 | Promises were given at Sunningdale in 1973 that articles 2 and 3 were to be withdrawn and were repeated before Hillsborough in 1985 . |
| 11 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |
| 12 | But these were to be men of non-noble birth or at best only from minor junker families , destined merely for posts such as Warsaw or The Hague where real aristocrats were not needed . |