Example sentences of "a [noun] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Squadron was to be divided into six parties , to attack targets all along the coast between Tobruk and the immediate area to the rear of the enemy front line . |
| 2 | Scarcely a churchyard was to be found but a number of those poor inocent birds were thus barberously treated . |
| 3 | Next day not a horse was to be seen . |
| 4 | The second point being that erm if a figure was to be identified for Greater York , we 'd feel that this would er unduly interfere with our duties and responsibilities as a District Council to allocate land in our district , cos in effect what it would do is direct us to making a housing allocation in one particular settlement , Shipton , we feel that 's our responsibility not the County Council . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |
| 6 | In mid-May Qatar and Iran were reported to have signed six agreements on areas of co-operation including air traffic , customs and the exchange of news ; a study was to be made of the feasibility of Iran supplying Qatar with fresh water through a pipe across the Gulf . |
| 7 | Not So Much a Programme was to be broadcast on Friday , Saturday and Sunday nights . |
| 8 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 9 | The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated . |
| 10 | Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value ; Charles had confirmed that a friendly relationship existed between the great kingdom of the Franks and Rome , and that a pope could make demands upon the Frankish king in full expectation of support and response — perhaps even of obedience . |
| 11 | But I told myself sourly that that was in the past , while here in the present a living was to be earned . |
| 12 | In fact , in our view , it would only aggravate the situation even further if such a byelaw was to be adopted , as most people within the district do not know which land is owned by the Council and which is not . |
| 13 | A shoot-out was to be avoided at all costs , and though Weaver was certainly armed , the moment he was confronted with two heavy-duty thirty-eight calibres , the game would be up . |
| 14 | A proportion was to be allotted to the fifteen forest townships in lieu of their rights of common , and the remainder , as Crown lands , were to be leased to the king 's creditors . |
| 15 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 16 | The remainder each had ten sentences with a line underneath where a continuation was to be written . |
| 17 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 18 | When each side had pleaded its cause very noisily , the arbitrator decided in favour of the monks , though the Lady Garsinde was to receive a monetary recompense for abandoning her claims ; a concord was to be drawn up . |
| 19 | A guard was to be put on it and the vicar arranged to ring the church bells if it was attacked . |
| 20 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 21 | The whole is tied together by the notion of control although later a distinction was to be made between the authority of office and the authority of expertise . |
| 22 | A depositor was to be paid three-quarters of the amount of his deposit , but limited to a maximum deposit of £10,000 . |
| 23 | A wedge was to be driven between the political parties and the UDA and between the rural paramilitaries and the UDA . |
| 24 | In my judgment , therefore , if there were a statutory provision that the decision of a visitor on the law applicable to internal disputes of a charity was to be ‘ final and conclusive , ’ courts would have no jurisdiction to review the visitor 's decision on the grounds of error of law made by the visitor within his jurisdiction ( in the narrow sense ) . |
| 25 | Not a minute was to be wasted . |
| 26 | A paper was to be prepared for publication with the particulars of treatment and the results . |
| 27 | To be a woman was to be a shell-less creature , bereft and vulnerable . |
| 28 | The most suitable fate for a philosopher was to be born the son of a banker , like George Lukacs . |
| 29 | The Sechem were seldom if ever wrong when they agreed thai a method was to be permitted , for very little of what men considered new science was in fact a matter of recent discovery . |
| 30 | This depression , however , could not be engaged with because the belief was that to be in such a state was to be not mentally healthy . |