Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 2 | The restrictions governing such use which were shortly to be articulated by Gierek , Gomulka 's successor , provide the charter and justification for the military 's conduct in 1981 : |
| 3 | Holden and Holford 's City of London Plan put the seal on the principles of precinct planning and the canalization of traffic , crucial aspects of redevelopment which were soon to be seen in Coventry , Plymouth and elsewhere . |
| 4 | There were a number of warnings from RSGB which were included , and which were later to be added into the company prospectus . |
| 5 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 6 | He brought control and organization to a large labour force , which was ultimately to their benefit as well as his own . |
| 7 | Rain perched on a folded piece of carpet which was presumably to be her seat . |
| 8 | The home of the Arts Lab which was later to be re-named ‘ Growth ’ |
| 9 | For the District it was a period of the funded-tutor enterprise which was later to be challenged through the gradual development of a new regional policy by the Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board . |
| 10 | Scheckter and Depailler made it a double for the Tyrrell six-wheeler ( which was later to be banned , like many another intelligent innovation ) , Niki came third and Hunt limped in fifth , nearly a minute off the pace . |
| 11 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |
| 12 | Suger devoted many years to rebuilding the great abbey church ( in i style which was later to be hailed as the prototype of Gothic architecture ) to make it a fit royal mausoleum , as well as a place of worship in which mere men could obtain a brief insight into the grandeur that surrounded the king of kings in heaven . |
| 13 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 14 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 15 | Human rights groups and local people said that the dead were the victims of a massacre in December 1981 by the elite US-trained Atlacatl battalion , which was yet to be disbanded . |
| 16 | Wycliffe sipped his coffee , which was just to his liking , and stretched his legs to the fire in a mood of expansive goodwill . |
| 17 | On 2 September 1912 Gil Blas announced that Marcel Duchamp was planning to send to the forthcoming Salon d'Automne a painting which was also to be called La Section d'Or . |
| 18 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 19 | The founder of Edinburgh 's school for the deaf originally believed in ‘ total oralism ’ yet later used the ‘ combined system ’ — a teaching of both speech and signs , which was also to be taught in the ensuing schools for deaf around Europe . |
| 20 | Charles VI , now only occasionally lucid , was to remain king until his death , but in the meantime Henry would act as regent ( in effect , in control of the government ) succeeding to the crown when Charles died , a fact which was soon to be interpreted to imply English recognition of the legitimacy of Charles VI 's rule as king of France . |
| 21 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
| 22 | All too often sensible Tories at conference had to endure the views of unsound parsons and leftish Mayors , an aberration which was soon to be submerged beneath a torrent of party oratory , obsequious loyalty and special pleading . |
| 23 | It was , however , by now well south of the airport and , after acknowledging an air traffic control instruction to report back at the BN beacon ready for another approach , the Vanguard tracked toward the BS , another beacon which was immediately to the south of the landing runway , 16 . |
| 24 | The generator outputs were fed through a good quality ammeter and into a 40 amp/hr 12V lead/acid battery which was half to three-quarters charged . |
| 25 | At the Forest Eyre in January the judges deprived Robert of his wardenship , which was henceforth to be at the disposal of the Crown . |
| 26 | The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned . |
| 27 | Even the photograph , she had to admit , was a good one : Hilda would never look attractive , Viola thought to herself , but at least she looked dignified , which was all to the good . |
| 28 | Gimson 's view of life — which was always to be that of the ‘ idealist individualist ’ — was formed more by the mood and the standards of that crowded , argumentative , intellectually zealous , middle-class , provincial household than by his formal education . |
| 29 | Daniel ( ’ Robinson Crusoe ’ ) Defoe , after reaching Saltash , which he found to be in a state of decay , and travelling to Liskeard , which was more to his taste , wrote , ‘ In the neighbourhood of these towns are many pleasant seats of the Cornish gentry … they are the most sociable , generous and to one another the kindest neighbours that are to be found ’ . |
| 30 | Dzerzinsky 's absence the Cheka was replaced by the GPU ( Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie ) , which was now to be integrated within the Commissariat for Internal Affairs . |