Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 2 | The fortunes of the Trelawney family , which was to include the famed bishop , and the Bullers , to include Sir Redvers Buller of Boer War fame , stemmed largely from the downfall of the Winslade family , long holders of the manor of Tregarrick . |
| 3 | Further changes were requested , one of which was to include the Scottish Crown in the four corners of the carpet , reflecting the one used on the ceiling of the Throne Room . |
| 4 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 5 | It formed the basis for the development of plant-level bargaining in the big factories , which was to characterize the Italian economy throughout the seventies . |
| 6 | From the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s it was increasing inequality which was to dominate the changing geography of manufacturing , and indeed of employment more generally . |
| 7 | By the 1840s the Bank of Prussia — which was to become the central bank for the expanding joint-stock and credit banking system — had been established with capital of over 11 million thalers . |
| 8 | The legislation which was to become the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , a long statute of 106 Sections and seven schedules , was the most comprehensive since the 1948 Act . |
| 9 | At Wood 's request , he also substantially revised the RIC manual , first issued in 1866 , and produced his own The Irish Constable 's Guide , which was to become the Irish policeman 's Bible . |
| 10 | For Adam Smith in 1776 , laying down the philosophical system which was to become the ideological underpinning of the market economy , they were the greatest obstruction placed on the movement of labour for they affected even common labour , while the regulations of guilds and corporations restricted the movement only of artisans . |
| 11 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 12 | The marriage , and the recruitment and endowment of the two Rhinelanders , had the same purpose : Charles wanted to strengthen his general position in the part of Francia which was to constitute the northeastern sector of his kingdom . |
| 13 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 14 | He followed this with his first official act , which was to reduce the annual salary of the president from $225,000 to $175,000 . |
| 15 | However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed . |
| 16 | Though the right wing had lost much of its political leverage in the Cortes , their opposition found voice in growing street violence and eventually a military uprising which was to start the civil war . |
| 17 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 18 | As a result the IDA began what was to become the first step in the desperate local search for a toxic dump site . |
| 19 | What was to become the future firm of Guest , Keen & Nettlefold ( GKN ) began when John Nettlefold opened an ironmonger 's shop at 54 High Holborn , London , in 1823 , and in 1826 a water-mill at Sunbury-on-Thames to make iron wood-screws ; this was followed in 1834 by a steam-powered factory in Baskerville Place off Broad Street in Birmingham , the centre of the screw trade . |
| 20 | This inversion is also an instance of what was to become the classic move in ideological demystification : the metaphysical is displaced by , and then collapsed into , the social . |
| 21 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 22 | The outline of what was to become the Special Air Service was roughed out in pencil on sheets of paper in hospital during June and July 1941 . |
| 23 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 24 | The influence of this view is clearly reflected in the works of the two thirteenth-century Dominican friars , Raymond of Peñafort and Thomas Aquinas , who , over a period of half a century , set out what was to become the orthodox justification of certain wars , the ‘ just ’ wars , as we term them . |
| 25 | The key figure in the initiation and development of variable analysis was Paul F. Lazarsfeld , who worked at Columbia University from the 1930s to the 1950s and who , with colleagues such as Stouffer , Thurstone , Rosenberg and Guttman , pioneered what was to become the orthodox mode of social research . |
| 26 | Lord Heathfield ( 1750–1813 ) was actively involved in founding the Veterinary College and ( later ) what was to become the Royal Army Veterinary Corps . |