Example sentences of "[was/were] to [be] [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 2 | The president ( who would also chair the Council of Ministers ) , the vice-president , the prime minister , and the secretary and vice-chairman of the council of ministers were to be elected from different ethnic backgrounds and political groups . |
| 3 | If any reporters were to be poached from other papers , they would mostly need to give three months ' notice . |
| 4 | Privatized companies were to be exempted from strict government wage controls and foreign share purchases amounting to more than 10 per cent of a company would require explicit permission . |
| 5 | Norman Lamont , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , presented in the House of Commons on March 19 the budget for the financial year beginning April 5 , 1991 , in which the surprise announcement was made that a considerable portion of the burden of the community charge was to be transferred from individual charge-payers to central government , which would recoup most of the cost through an increase in value added tax . |
| 6 | Certainly Ambassador Bruce 's reporting from Paris appears to have been impartial ; while the Far Eastern memorandum took for granted first that those in command of the so-called Vietnamese Democratic Republic were men trained in the methods and doctrines of international communism ; secondly , that should they succeed , a pattern of foreign totalitarianism would be clamped upon Vietnam under which all liberties , national and personal , would be lost and thirdly , that the paramount question in Indo-China was whether the country was to be saved from communist control : all other issues were irrelevant . |
| 7 | Technical advice on classroom observation was to be sought from various advisory bodies , and agreement to the principle and procedures of the research was to be sought from teaching staff at a staff meeting . |
| 8 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 9 | Approximately 70 per cent of development expenditure was to be financed from foreign assistance and loans . |