Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 2 | It was , of course , not the Springboks but Nick Farr-Jones 's Wallabies who were to emerge from the restored gold mine shining as brightly as a 24-carat nugget to inflict on South Africa their worst-ever defeat in international rugby . |
| 3 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 4 | On the way down from the summit of Broad Peak they passed Greg Child and the ailing Pete Thexton , who was to die in a lower camp that night from pulmonary oedema . |
| 5 | He expressed anxiety about the public accountability of the funding council , and in particular who was to look after the strategic planning . |
| 6 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
| 7 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |
| 8 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |