Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 2 | If every inhabitant was now to become a citizen and without the former property qualification , empire provided a vicarious property qualification for the Master Race . |
| 3 | Elections to the National Assembly were now to take place through the direct and secret vote of the population — deputies having previously been elected by members of each of the country 's 14 provincial assemblies ( which were popularly elected ) from among their own members . |
| 4 | The young earls who attended the Dunstable tournament were now to take a leading part in Edward 's wars , and with a new generation of earls came a new strategy . |
| 5 | Policy was now to allow the moran to form manyattas ‘ and then to exercise control over them , and to use up their surplus energy in making them work ’ , the theory being that if the moran were in manyattas , at least the administration knew where they were . |
| 6 | The politburo was also retained , rather than being replaced by a party presidium , although in keeping with the proposals for the latter body the politburo was now to include the leaders of the parties in the 15 republics . |
| 7 | MacArthur 's major objective was now to recover the Philippines . |
| 8 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 9 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 10 | Convinced that the dynasty was lost , she felt that her duty was now to do everything in her power to save the country . |
| 11 | His son was now to take charge and lead the opposition to Lij Yasu . |
| 12 | His solution was now to spend his way out of the recession by a massive expansion of public works programmes , and by the summer of 1939 the crisis was over — although there were still over 9 million unemployed . |
| 13 | Referring to the English essayists , he says : ‘ A sentence was written to have only one meaning ’ : and the writer 's ‘ task was now to create autonomous text to write in such a manner that the sentence was an adequate , explicit representation of the meaning , relying on no implicit premises or personal interpretations ’ ( 1977 , p. 268 ) . |