Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] force " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those orders were to remain in force until the next hearing on 31 January 1992 . |
| 2 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 3 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 4 | I have discussed the impact that moves towards a Single Currency may have , especially if the Maastricht Treaty were to come into force . |
| 5 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 6 | The ban on commercial whaling is to remain in force for another year , as a result of decisions taken at the 44th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) held in Glasgow , Scotland , on June 29-July 3 . |
| 7 | A PEDESTRIANISATION scheme which has angered disabled groups in Darlington is to come into force from March 29 . |
| 8 | And it did not mention a fixed life-span , with provision for renewal or renegotiation : the Treaty was to remain in force for ‘ an unlimited period ’ . |
| 9 | In November 1947 they had issued a statutory order ( which was to remain in force until July 1950 ) limiting all new orders for turbo-alternators for the home market to sets of 30MW capacity ( with prewar standard steam conditions of 600psi and 850°F ) and 60MW sets ( with more advanced steam conditions of 900psi and 900°F ) . |
| 10 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 11 | Drawn up by a panel of civilian and military experts , the charter was to remain in force for a 30-month interim period , at the end of which a referendum would be held on a new constitution for Chad . |
| 12 | The charter was to remain in force until a general election ( scheduled for 1993 ) . |
| 13 | The Convention was to come into force upon ratification by 30 states . |
| 14 | Taylor was reported to have ordered his forces to begin a ceasefire unilaterally from noon on Nov. 10 , 12 hours before the ECOWAS ceasefire was to come into force . |
| 15 | The Convention was to come into force upon ratification by 30 states . |
| 16 | The opposition objected in principle to the law ( which was to enter into force on March 11 , 1990 ) and appealed to the constitutional tribunal which , however , upheld it . |