Example sentences of "was to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 3 | The plan of campaign was to be kept simple and direct . |
| 4 | By contrast , in 587 Rauching was in alliance with Chlothar 's followers and hostile to Childebert : Guntram was to be kept neutral . |
| 5 | Our rent , in pounds sterling , was to be sent monthly to Mrs Puri 's bank account in deepest Ludhiana . |
| 6 | And the Princess Joanna 's marriage to David Stewart was to be declared null and void , since both had been mere infants at its celebration , and the princess free to marry whomsoever her royal brother selected , Balliol himself being glad and privileged to wed her if this was his Lord Edward 's will and choice . |
| 7 | The government overruled the Lords ' amendment , but made one small concession : if less than 50 per cent of the eligible voters recorded their vote then the election was to be declared null and void . |
| 8 | The new body was to be called Western European Union ( WEU ) . |
| 9 | The new company was to be called British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) . |
| 10 | It would be helpful if a selection of the published close-dated groups was to be made available in microfilm or microfiche . |
| 11 | This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed . |
| 12 | Er if for no other reason than er if the compensation scheme was to be made retrospective to include the victims of the Maxwell fraud , it would at least erm restore some public confidence in the in the pensions industry . |
| 13 | Employees ' share schemes for example would be unworkable if , every time a further allotment was to be made pursuant to them , all equity shareholders had to be offered pre-emptive rights . |
| 14 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 15 | The full ten thousand million lire , in well-worn notes , not consecutively numbered , was to be made ready for delivery immediately . |
| 16 | After spending part of the summer at Baden with Constanze , Mozart decided to go on speculation to Frankfurt am Main , where Leopold II was to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 9 October . |
| 17 | On 29 June 1559 , Henri wrote to the pope , that notorious bombast Paul IV , about ‘ the incredible disaster which has since befallen the realm of Scotland to our extreme regret , disgust and displeasure ’ ; the letter stated his ‘ confidence in God who is so signally offended at this wretched plague of ruffians ’ , but God was to be given worldly assistance in the shape of ‘ a large and sufficient force of French soldiers , infantry and cavalry ’ . |
| 18 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |
| 19 | A press release on Scottish Office notepaper was dispatched to the Woodhill House HQ saying the conference had heard community care was to be postponed due to a miscalculation of infrastructure costs , which authorities were required to pay back by 31 April . |
| 20 | This defined heresy as any opposition to the Catholic doctrine of the sacraments , but it also specified that any preaching which took place without licence was to be deemed heretical . |
| 21 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 22 | All she really wanted , if she could not be in his presence , was to be left alone so that she could recall and relive in her mind every moment of that morning 's encounter , and dream about what the future might hold for her . |
| 23 | ‘ The police were told that the truck was to be left alone until someone came and got it , ’ Myeloski went on , having regained his breath . |
| 24 | My impression was that I was only getting a small part of his attention , that he was profoundly preoccupied and that the one thing he wanted was to be left alone . ’ |
| 25 | All people really wanted , Dorcas considered , was to be left alone . |
| 26 | All he wanted , all he hoped for now was to be left alone to come to terms with his plight . |
| 27 | The Saturday Review attacked Palmerston for receiving the delegation , having said that the question of style was to be left open for the next session . |
| 28 | The publication of A Force for Change was crucial because it represented an important internal victory for the reformers , and established glasnost as the principle by which the Met was to be put right . |
| 29 | From a different position , independently arrived at and much less troubling , the animus was to be shared lifelong by Robert Graves . |
| 30 | Intelligence was to be scrubbed free of the impurities of independent action . |