Example sentences of "that [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As Mr. Ron Lord , Wakefield 's assistant chief financial officer , points out in the Municipal Journal , they could at least introduce the poll tax ’ against a background of a stable rating system which managers were able to put on automatic pilot while diverting their attention to the multitude of practical problems that were to arise with the new system . |
2 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
3 | From Paris , Jean-Jacques Lebel wrote an obituary for the surrealist André Breton , beginning a relationship between the French semi-Situationist and the British underground press that was to persist into the following decade . |
4 | It was the beginning of an on-off professional relationship that was to persist into the 1970s , by which time , in London , Neville would even write for Rowe 's new magazine , Spare Rib . |
5 | The latter was at Jalo Oasis , in command of a motorized force that was to operate on the southern flank of the Eighth Army . |
6 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
7 | Formed in the aftermath of the 1931 financial crisis , PEP exemplified that liberal-reformist strand of ‘ middle opinion ’ that was to grow in the 1930s and provide the basis for the political shift leftwards during the Second World War . |