Example sentences of "there [was/were] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were to be extraordinary inconsistencies in the description of that fateful call by the main participants . |
| 2 | There were to be listening posts with recorded messages , sturdy steps set into inclines , handrails at strategic points and gates adapted for guide dogs . |
| 3 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 4 | The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget . |
| 5 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 6 | There were to be brief respites from the prolonged drought , one of which Gould was to be most fortunate to encounter , but the settlers were still facing a period of unparalleled hardship . |
| 7 | There were to be diversionary rebellions in Scotland and the north of England , supported perhaps by spontaneous risings in other areas like the already restive Midlands , but the main effort was to be in the south-west , centred on Bath . |
| 8 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | There was to be great a embankment across the Welland Valley to carry the canal southwards well to the east of Barnes 's line but eventually joining the Grand Junction again very near to Long Buckby . |
| 10 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 11 | But there was to be Norman Lamont and a tr and treasury ministers , three or four of them . |
| 12 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |