Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If environmental improvements were to be sought outside the centre , they would have to be achieved through restraining the car , not excluding it . |
| 2 | This was true of the declared intention to establish not just a common commercial policy once the transitional period had been concluded , but also of objectives which were to be sought during the transitional phase : a common transport policy , free movement of workers , and a common agricultural policy . |
| 3 | These men were the ministeriales , originally unfree tenants ; as the nobility became increasingly independent , the ministeriales were promoted to fill their place in the royal service , and they received increasingly valuable patronage and endowment ; abbots of imperial monasteries were even forbidden to distribute fiefs to free tenants — they were to be reserved for the unfree , the ministeriales . |
| 4 | ‘ If , for example , he were to be engaged in the reconnaissance of the Unknown Lands , ’ Alexei supplied . |
| 5 | If a set of presumptive penalties were to be constructed on the basis of Court of Appeal recommendations , for example , this would clearly have disastrous implications for sentencing levels elsewhere in the system , and particularly in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 6 | If there is a contract of employment , the employee 's obligations were to be determined from the contract . |
| 7 | Two thousand Cornishmen , it had been planned , were to be rushed to the defence of Plymouth , the most likely invasion point . |
| 8 | Namibia 's armed forces were to be based on the integration of locally recruited units with former SWAPO guerrillas . |
| 9 | However , just as the Nordic states abandoned the idea of close economic integration , the theme was taken up in new developments elsewhere which , if they had a role model in mind , were to be based upon the more intensive ambitions of Benelux rather than the loose informal formats ultimately favoured by Britain and Scandinavia . |
| 10 | In the final resort matters in disagreement were to be referred to the Shipping Controller , though his decision was not binding unless agreed by both sides . |
| 11 | Two companies were to be formed from the CEGB 's generating activities . |
| 12 | But her fears were to be reawakened during the summer of 1990 . |
| 13 | The new wards were to be built on the northern side of the workhouse grounds , and a sub-committee was appointed to keep an eye on progress . |
| 14 | A further three were to be built at the old carding mill at a gross rental of £10 per annum . |
| 15 | By the late neolithic , Knossian house plans had become quite elaborate , with square fireplaces set against a wall or in the centre of the room , and with neighbouring dwellings juxtaposed to make a cellular layout familiar in Early Minoan villages such as Fournou Korifi ( Myrtos ) and the temples that were to be built in the Middle Minoan . |
| 16 | Children were to be subsumed within the dwelling to this notion of order : " Teach your children that a house is only habitable when it is full of light and air , and when the floors and walls are clear . |
| 17 | Under the new constitution , four of the five autonomous oblasti ( regions ) in the Russian Federation were to be upgraded to the status of republic ( Adygey , Gorny Altai , Karachai-Circassia and Khakassia ) , making 20 in all . |
| 18 | But there never could be such an observer — at least not if his thought-processes were to be analysed in the same way as ours — because his thoughts about the relations of the particulars would themselves be just a succession of particulars whose relations , which give them meaning , were not directly accessible to him . |
| 19 | The quantitative lending controls were abolished and the liquidity and cash ratio requirements as devices for regulating credit were to be replaced by the reserve asset ratio ( this will be considered further ) . |
| 20 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 21 | I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 22 | Six of the latter were to be elected by the two Irish universities . |
| 23 | Many of the affected sites included training areas , barracks , recreational facilities and supply depots , but some involved airfields and support areas for sophisticated weaponry such as Pershing II missiles which were to be destroyed under the recent arms agreements with the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | These were to be placed upon the tombs of his ancestors who lay buried there — Henry II , Richard I , Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoulême ( see plate 2.1 ) . |
| 25 | Stonehouse , also for Glasgow , was designated in 1972 , but after the building of the first houses , was aborted in 1976 : a vivid illustration of a change in priorities , for resources were to be channelled into the renewal of inner Glasgow ( the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal — GEAR — scheme ) . |
| 26 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 27 | The government stated that the members of both forces were to be absorbed into the army and would not be part of a new National Civilian Police force . |
| 28 | A proportion was to be allotted to the fifteen forest townships in lieu of their rights of common , and the remainder , as Crown lands , were to be leased to the king 's creditors . |
| 29 | The Council wished to borrow £55,000 to pay for their construction , and the tramways were to be leased to the B.E.T . |
| 30 | As originally conceived in the White Paper , the main characteristics of the polytechnics were that they were to be large , comprehensive , have an applied philosophy , be primarily teaching institutions with a brief to develop courses in new areas , and their courses were to be validated by the CNAA . |