Example sentences of "they [was/were] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this rule , all male members of the community were obliged to wait until the age of twenty to marry and sire children ; at the age of thirty , they were to be regarded as mature and initiated into the higher ranks of the sect . |
| 2 | All those who were familiar with the works of Kerschensteiner knew that the task of the schools was to educate their pupils to serve their fellow citizens ; they were to be taught the value of joy in work as service . |
| 3 | Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ . |
| 4 | The ‘ Articles concerning the Charters ’ ordained that they were to be observed in full , including those regarding disafforestment , and read out in every county court four times a year . |
| 5 | Years before , Lord Camden had insisted that the principles of the law of nature must be incorporated in the British Constitution if they were to be observed , and that they actually were so incorporated . |
| 6 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 7 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 8 | Still , they were to be forgiven because the course they adopted , of ‘ setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society' seemed natural to them . |
| 9 | Winchester city councillor Major Dougie Covill requested that more pressure be put upon the county council to improve the footpaths and pavements which are in a very dangerous condition , and a Broad Street businessman wondered if residents were really aware of the changes going on in Broad Street , and the manner in which they were to be undertaken . |
| 10 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 11 | There was probably no ( easy ) alternative to the use of temporary workers ; and if they were to be employed , at least such workers should otherwise have the same rights as regular workers . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you ever touch me again ! ’ she yelled , rather inauspiciously if they were to be cast as lovers . |
| 13 | They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education . |
| 14 | It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home . |
| 15 | In November 1946 , the pre-war decision to get rid of the trams was reaffirmed , but they were to be replaced by motor buses and not trolleybuses . |
| 16 | They were to be elected by peasants from among the ranks of the gentry in order to defend peasant interests in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 17 | They had been trained in their own callings — pilots , navigators , gunners and wireless operator 's — and came together at No 19 OTU Kinloss where they were to be trained on Whitleys . |
| 18 | If they were to be overthrown , the justification would have to be overwhelming . |
| 19 | Of the two assessors , as they were to be referred to , Samuel Angell ( 1800–66 ) was the better known . |
| 20 | They were to be exchanged for Nasir Sa'id , a Palestinian serving a life sentence in Belgium for an attack in 1980 on Jewish children in Antwerp , in which one person was killed and 16 wounded . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Smaller fields , however , could be commercially developed onshore and fields as small as 50 Bcf might be an attractive proposition offshore , if they were to be developed as satellites to larger fields . |
| 23 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 24 | The four sets of parents went in to the Panel separately , although they were to be treated as one case . |
| 25 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 26 | They were to be treated as exclusion clauses . |
| 27 | As for her new-found peace and joy , they were to be refined in the thousand-and-one ordeals which lay ahead . |
| 28 | They were to be prepared for their maternal duties and given material assistance to maintain a higher standard of motherhood . |
| 29 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 30 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |