Example sentences of "that [noun sg] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 2 | Dad had left slightly more money than expected , and that money was to be divided equally between Nathan , Georgia and Rona , Rona 's share to be held in trust until she attained the age of eighteen . |
| 3 | That afternoon was to be no exception . |
| 4 | I was ready to do my part but I wanted freedom to choose what that part was to be . |
| 5 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 6 | The Attorney-General subsequently announced that libel was to be treated as a criminal offence , provoking protests against censorship from the local and foreign press . |
| 7 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 8 | There were other similarities in character which could be applied then and later in that Dupea was to be portrayed , in many ways , as the bastard who walks out of his family and a pregnant girlfriend , refuses to tell the girl he lives with that he loves her or to play the role of a caring son . |
| 9 | The Wokingham Blacks grew more confident , but that complacency was to be their undoing . |
| 10 | In the past , that wholeness was to be found in the college or the institution and its organic community , but in modern times it tends to be located in the subject-department , which becomes in Burke 's phrase the ‘ little platoon ’ which provides the student with his or her identity , base and purpose ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 11 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 12 | That child was to be Charles the Bald . |
| 13 | Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . |
| 14 | Even if the political status of the Task Force within Merseyside began to wane after Heseltine 's departure from the Department of the Environment , one central objective of that initiative was to be retained : the co-ordination of central-government activity within the major conurbations . |
| 15 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 16 | In A Word in Season ( 1647 ) she championed lay preaching , and urged that godliness was to be found in many forms . |
| 17 | That code was to be developed to ensure that public transport met the needs of all passengers , including the disabled and that it worked efficiently in the consumers ' interest . |
| 18 | McLeish threw it away and methodically sorted his notes ; he was not going near a top firm of solicitors without a very careful list of questions , and his first port of call that morning was to be Huttons , who had been Angela Morgan 's solicitors . |
| 19 | He might , in short , agree that democracy was to be preferred and its extension to be sought . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union would only permit a united Germany if that state was to be neutral , the argument went , and that way lay the old nightmare of a Germany swinging between East and West . |
| 21 | Their Lordships rejected the claim saying that the statutory scheme showed that leave was to be ex parte . |
| 22 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 23 | Mr. Walker : I think that he should explain that virtually all the money for that project was to be public expenditure . |
| 24 | The great Fascist rally that summer was to be held at Olympia on 7 June . |
| 25 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 26 | In the next few weeks the writing of that book was to be a lifebelt . |
| 27 | That dynasty was to be the royal house of England . |
| 28 | All other considerations , to a greater or lesser degree , had to become secondary if that survival was to be ensured . |
| 29 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 30 | That in all this — in the maelstrom which he had managed to turn into a benevolent vortex — his real preoccupation at that time was to be a man . |