Example sentences of "who [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 2 | The kind of people who were to live in the network of what now amounts to eight properties — six owner-occupied houses and two rented apartment schemes — were not people with severe disabilities and high levels of dependency . |
| 3 | Would you like me to check the mail — or attend to the women who were to go for a bush walk ? ’ |
| 4 | Sidacai and the remaining Altun who were to ride with the command had arrived several days earlier , but since his return he had spoken to none of them . |
| 5 | It was not poor people who were to blame for the dampness but poor housing that was making the people poor . |
| 6 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 7 | That was what he meant to Luke Thackray , her son , who was to sleep in the kitchen so that the " candidate " might have the privacy of his tiny but spotless room . |
| 8 | Radzinowicz and Wootton were joined by Mrs Serota , who was to succeed to the chairmanship after the death of the first chairman , a former Labour Minister with a keen interest in penal policy , Kenneth Younger . |
| 9 | Emile Ollivier , who was to move from a position of intelligent opposition to that of head of the last real ministry of the Empire , describes the apartments thus : |
| 10 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 11 | He was created a baronet of Ireland 27 April 1624 , aged about twenty-one , probably through the influence of his uncle , Sir Dudley Norton , secretary for Ireland , and admitted to Gray 's Inn in 1629 , being a contemporary there of John Bradshaw [ q.v. ] , who was to preside over the king 's trial , John Cook [ q.v. ] , who was to prosecute the king , and John Alured the regicide [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 13 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 14 | After Jesus feeds the Five Thousand the crowd respond by declaring , ‘ Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world ! ’ |
| 15 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 16 | On the other hand these actions of preparation would better suit Hippodameia , who was to travel in the chariot ; and the other is perhaps characterised as older . |
| 17 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |