Example sentences of "[was/were] to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 2.1.4 details a proposed project for piloting the creation of an image database which could begin in 1992 , if funds were to be made available . |
| 2 | The new awards were to be made available from August 1992 . |
| 3 | If now the exchange rate policy instrument were to be made available for member countries to use more frequently and liberally , the anti-inflation properties of the EMS would be undermined and the gains achieved by member countries in the control of inflation would be dissipated . |
| 4 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 5 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 6 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 7 | About 1770 there was quite an elaborate proposal to create at Versailles another school for diplomats with thirty-six pupils , while others were to be given practical training by travel abroad or work , in preparation for careers as consuls , in the main French ports . |
| 8 | The arrival of the mail helped , too : a mound of letters from the relatives who were , or , if they were to be given free accommodation , thought that they were , coming to Uncle Karl 's party . |
| 9 | The Financial Times of July 27 reported that the Israeli Defence Ministry had confirmed that plots of land in the occupied territories were to be given free of charge to Jewish people wishing to settle . |
| 10 | However , it did see a need , if these arrangements were to be given full effect , for the local authorities ‘ to enhance their powers over individual institutions ’ by amending the existing Articles of Government . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Twenty in each university were to be taught modern history and languages and , if they reached the required standard , given suitable employment at home or abroad . |
| 13 | No one doubted that some form of physical education should be part of the programme ; nor was there any dissent from the view that girls were to be taught domestic economy and similar subjects in addition to trade and academic courses ; and , thirdly , the terms ‘ vocational ’ and ‘ liberal ’ should be generously interpreted , rather than be seen as mutually exclusive . |
| 14 | In recent talks with trade unions , Sir Colin said that catering costs were not fully competitive with those of outside contractors , and that the gap would have to be closed if the business were to be kept in-house . |
| 15 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 16 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 17 | The Act stated that all instalments after the first were to be paid weekly . |
| 18 | If someone were to be left alone in one of these structures , not only would the physical senses be deprived , but the individual would be in a psychic atmosphere well suited to the encouragement of inspirational and prophetic experiences . |
| 19 | However , such naive views , as we shall see later , were to be proved incorrect . |
| 20 | It would be delightful if this pessimistic and disappointed paragraph were to be proved false by subsequent activities . |
| 21 | We can now ask whether the action sub-samples were more likely to be still at home at six months and l2 months from referral ( as one would expect , if the project were to be accounted successful ) than the control sub-samples . |
| 22 | Only Fand was attacked ; Ruth guessed she and Adam were to be taken alive . |
| 23 | Administrative staff were to be offered equivalent posts to those they now held , but Corporation staff did have the opportunity of transferring to other departments of the Municipality . |
| 24 | Perhaps a certain sensitivity on this question inspired his particularly detailed instructions to Orjonikidze on how the Georgians were to be treated ; the intelligentsia were to be offered particular concessions , and the Mensheviks to be invited to participate — ‘ avoid any mechanism copying the Russian pattern … bigger concessions to all the petty bourgeois elements ’ . |
| 25 | As far as the School was concerned , the Headmaster ( reappointed ) was requested to purchase books and stationery , to be sold to the pupils , and " pens , ink , inkpots , and indiarubber " which were to be supplied free of charge . |
| 26 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 27 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 28 | The plan of campaign was to be kept simple and direct . |
| 29 | By contrast , in 587 Rauching was in alliance with Chlothar 's followers and hostile to Childebert : Guntram was to be kept neutral . |
| 30 | Our rent , in pounds sterling , was to be sent monthly to Mrs Puri 's bank account in deepest Ludhiana . |