Sentence examples for were to be retained from inspiring English sources

However, even if the current system were to be retained, the 2021 census would look somewhat different from 2011's, with the default option being for forms to be filled in online.

To my astonishment he told me he had received instructions to close CSS by the following month, and that only four staff were to be retained (out of 12.6 positions) to deliver the programmes that would be relocated.

For most enslaved people in British North America, however, the Act resulted only in partial liberation, as it only emancipated children under the age of six, while others were to be retained by their former owners for four to six years as apprentices.

On the other hand, just like the girl in the newspaper, she had not seen her passport with her own eyes since she arrived at the Derawals', and she had been told from the start that her wages were to be retained by the Derawals to pay for the food and water and heat she would require during her stay, as well as to cover the rent for the room she slept in.

The relieved British units were to be retained in Egypt as reinforcements.

Democratic centralism was to remain unchanged, and centralized management of certain sectors were to be retained.

Public sector pay limits are to be retained.

All the jobs are to be retained, apparently.

More recent press reports have said it is to be retained, but radically stripped down.

The Environment Agency and Natural England are to be retained but substantially reformed.

That eight of the arenas used in the Olympic Park are to be retained is another thumbs up.