Example sentences of "the [adj] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a peculiar thing to do , because in 1963 in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor had ruled that a free pardon wiped out a conviction and all its consequences , and the accused was to be regarded as having been acquitted . |
| 2 | The ADM-19 was to be led in the Congress by a former guerrilla commander , Vera Grabe . |
| 3 | Joan de Warenne , it appeared , had not been required to go with her young mistress , since the latter was to be the guest of Lady Alianor Woodville , the queen-dowager 's kinswoman — a lady who occupied apartments in the palace and kept an amplitude of servants . |
| 4 | The latter was to be achieved through the abolition of internal customs duties and the introduction of a joint external tariff on all imports into the three countries , and the unification of excise and other tax rates . |
| 5 | The latter was to be posted in a box , to which was attached an electric cord . |
| 6 | Lord Lane CJ stated : ( a ) If there was a conflict between Lawrence and Morris , the latter was to be preferred , but the Lords in Morris did not see a conflict . |
| 7 | The nature of the conflict fought in the 1370s was to be very different from that of earlier decades , and its effects more dramatic . |
| 8 | The first was to be run on strictly business lines , while the second needed financial support . |
| 9 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |