Example sentences of "[was/were] to be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a cause were to be rendered of natural appearances in special as what are the motions and influences of the heavenly bodies and of their parts , the reason hereof must either be drawn from the parts of the sciences above mentioned , or no reason at all will be given , but all left to uncertain conjecture . ’ |
| 2 | A follow-up language course , the Safari Course , was devised , and programmes framed by the language section of the newly formed Curriculum Development Centre were to be integrated with those prepared in other subject sections . |
| 3 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Repayment started in 1946 , initially only to men aged 65 or over and to women aged 60 or over , but the conditions for claiming varied over the years until 1972 when it was announced that there would be a ‘ general release ’ and that all credits were to be repaid without any further restrictions . |
| 6 | Touches on the economic tiller were to be reserved for monetary policy — and changes in interest rates in particular . |
| 7 | Sections of the Grid which were expected to carry increasingly heavy loads ( such as those between the coalfield power stations in the East Midlands and load centres in London ) were to be constructed with wide clearances so as to be suitable for conversion to even higher voltages later should the need arise . |
| 8 | During 1992 some 5,500 of the proposed 19,500 state housing units were to be constructed in occupied territories . |
| 9 | Two tutors training sessions had been held and five candidates were to be examined on 28th October . |
| 10 | If it were to be stopped at all , then it could only be by means that fell entirely outside the constitution . |
| 11 | They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education . |
| 12 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 13 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 14 | Nor was it an appealing thought to the king that while his own bureaucrats and servants were being thus harried , the pope 's men were assured of dispensations enough , and that since the resigned livings were vacated by papal decree , and therefore in effect at the Curia , they were to be filled by papal provision , not by the previous or usual patron . |
| 15 | In November the cardinals , together with representatives of the different national groupings , elected a new pope for the whole Church , Martin V. Before doing so , however , they had ensured through the decree Frequens that Councils were to be called at regular intervals of ten years . |
| 16 | finally , local councils were to be formed for each former borough , urban district or parish council area in the new unitary authorities , and where wanted in the metropolitan areas . |
| 17 | They walked down into the town , now concealed by darkness , despite regulations that lantern horns were to be displayed outside each house . |
| 18 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 19 | By contrast , a sense of ‘ community ’ seemed to be absolutely essential if village populations were to be maintained at viable levels . |
| 20 | The small units based upon traditional settlements or rural areas were to be replaced by wider areas with larger populations . |
| 21 | The JMCs were to be replaced by regional co-ordinating committees which would meet when necessary , the sub-JMCs would disappear and the mini-JMCs would form local co-ordinating committees which would also meet only when necessary . |
| 22 | The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases . |
| 23 | Free places were to be replaced by special places : still open to competition , but with the added requirement that parents should nevertheless pay an approved fee , to be adjusted according to the means of the family . |
| 24 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 28 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 29 | Decisions were to be adopted by 80 per cent of the votes . |
| 30 | Soviet customs regulations were to be maintained in Lithuania ( the Lithuanian government on March 17 had announced plans to curb exports from the republic , including introduction of Lithuanian-run border checkpoints ) , and guards were to be posted around nuclear power stations and " other very important sites which are all-union property " . |