Example sentences of "[was/were] to [be] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |
2 | All householders living below the line were to be charged a local drainage rate , and this line still dictates the area of jurisdiction of internal drainage boards , whose annual expenditure is considerable and influence on the environment profound . |
3 | The boys were to be given a certain amount of trust in their activities so that they might have the opportunity to make themselves moral , which in turn could help them become good and valuable members of the community . |
4 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
5 | But , in those days , to defend the House of Lords was to be dubbed a shameful reactionary . |
6 | 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 " . |
7 | Many of us are old enough to remember the days when to contract tuberculosis — which many British people did — was to be given a virtual death sentence . |
8 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |
9 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
10 | This morning was the first time he was to be given a serious piece of work before running later in the week . |
11 | If a low-ranking muderris wanted to change over to the career of kasabat kadi , moreover , he was immediately better paid : a provision of the Kanunname states that if a 20-akce muderris in the were to become a kadi , he was to be given a 45-akce kadilik . |
12 | Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters . |
13 | This , rather than a Macaulayish enthusiasm for the export of parliamentary institutions , was the motive for his advocacy , through Congress , of political reform : British authority was to be given a human face by allowing qualified Indians some share in the running of the country . |
14 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
15 | He was to bring Patrick back , any way he could , but the girl — if she was in Dublin — was to be taught a serious and possibly fatal lesson . |
16 | His conclusion that it was simply an old-fashioned recognition of his comparative youth was to be torpedoed a few minutes later when he heard her addressing his neighbour as Alf . |
17 | This meant in practice that all foreign intervention , by the United States and Pakistan as well as the USSR , must come to an end ; secure guarantees must be provided that there would be no further intervention in Afghan affairs ; and the People 's Democratic Party ( which remained strongly Soviet-aligned ) was to be accorded a dominant position in any future Afghan government . |