Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 2 | Centralisation and nationalisation were to be the means to full employmcnt . |
| 3 | It was different from previous work in that main roads were to be included ; public transport as well as walking and cycling were to be considered ; and particular importance was to be attached to the attempt to lower costs and achieve area-wide benefits by applying fewer and simpler measures . |
| 4 | Bike parking and signposting were to be improved and experiments with bikes in pedestrian areas were to be tried . |
| 5 | For it was at court , as the more astute realised , that positions of power and wealth were to be found . |
| 6 | So , if clashes , deadlock , and instability were to be avoided , ways had to be found to ensure harmony between the three " checking " institutions of the state . |
| 7 | Certain objectives might have to be abandoned if others of even greater value and importance were to be attained . |
| 8 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 9 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |
| 10 | At the same time he profoundly believed that in the church Jew and Gentile were to be united in one fellowship . |
| 11 | Instead she and Midnight were to be housed and fed to suit an old woman 's cracked-brain scheme . |
| 12 | Ideally , the roles of husband and wife were to be complementary , the husband earning the wage and the wife acting as ‘ chancellor of the family exchequer ’ and spending it wisely . |
| 13 | Stability and permanence were to be encouraged , young people and parents warned of ‘ the dangers , both spiritual and physical , of sexual promiscuity whether heterosexual or homosexual ’ . |
| 14 | The increase was not uniformly distributed over the whole country ; the population grew most rapidly in the North and West , especially where coal and iron were to be found , and supplied a convenient labour force for the manufacturing industries . |
| 15 | Here , in primary legislation , the essentials are prescribed : the three core subjects of mathematics , English and science ; the seven foundation subjects ( history , geography , technology , music , art , physical education and - in secondary schools — a modern foreign language ) ; the ‘ basic , subject , religious education ; the mechanisms of programmes of study , attainment targets and keystage assessment by means of which the objectives of breadth , balance and quality were to be achieved . |
| 16 | Honesty and courtesy were to be their guides when phoning potential customers , with no misleading statements , exaggerations or partial truths , and no unsolicited calls made to them at their place of work . |
| 17 | Church and State were to be separated , local government democratized , and a Constituent Assembly elected by universal , direct , equal and secret franchise was to be summoned to settle the future form of the country 's constitution and to resolve major social problems such as that of the land . |
| 18 | People with different skills and training were to be allocated to places where these could be fully utilised , unlike before . |
| 19 | Chapter and verse were to be forthcoming when the deal was settled . |
| 20 | If people and habitation were to be found , it was likely that they would be located somewhere along the bank . |
| 21 | That scepticism and memory were to be important when he became an archbishop and was expected to be a leader in the organization . |
| 22 | This logic gives a clue as to how the problems of sectorization and staffing were to be approached by Exeter managers . |