Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack now discovered that the Motion Picture Association of America had given it an ‘ X ’ rating and Columbia — who were to release the Movie for general distribution — had a policy at that time that they would never release an X-rated picture . |
| 2 | It was the échevins who were to represent the towns in all the proceedings of the following year ; and once Thierry of Alsace was safely ensconced as count , he could hardly subvert their position . |
| 3 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
| 4 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |
| 5 | The club 's pivot was the drama : its master was Leo Lloyd — the second of those men who were to promote the career of so many boys and girls from the Afan valley . |
| 6 | Large numbers of men were employed , too , in growing vegetables and grain for the army ; but it was not they who were to reap the harvest , for their crops and granaries were either captured by the Russians or burned . |
| 7 | He was , however , appointed as one of the leaders of the stewards who were to control the DCAC 's first demonstration , which was to be held on 19 October : |
| 8 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 9 | Although still two years before the Club was constituted , the land had clearly been earmarked for a golf course , and in 1906 ‘ The Syndicate ’ , as the company was known locally , agreed to sell this same 70 acres of land to a nucleus of people who were to form the kernel of the Club 's future bondholders , but who were then merely interested persons . |
| 10 | Yet a tradition of urban centres of political power had been clearly established , and the members of the ruling class who were to determine the course of revolution and change came largely from urban backgrounds . |
| 11 | Who had they been , those poor tragic people who had brought forth the twins who were to fulfil the sorceress 's prophecy ? |
| 12 | The liberals , who were to abolish the guild system in 1834 , reinforced these views with their doctrinaire belief in the virtues of competition . |
| 13 | F. W. H. Christie , an English barrister , testified that an order to arrest the strike leaders throughout Northern Ireland had been countermanded , but that the new instructions did not reach the troops who were to make the arrests in the Rathcoole district and a small section of Belfast . |
| 14 | Foremost amongst the travelling players were the Serious Lovers who were to become the danseurs nobles and ballerinas of classical ballet , because they were always noble heroes and heroines . |
| 15 | The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community . |
| 16 | It prepared the way for the men who were to prepare the way for the Council . |
| 17 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 18 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 19 | John Hutt , Governor of Western Australia , was thrilled that it was to be an Englishman who was to dispel the mists of ornithological obscurity from the continent . |
| 20 | The novelty of a golf course being built at Henley was interesting material to the proprietor of the Henley Standard , a certain 30-year-old Charles Luker who was to join the Club in about 1909–10 , and eventually become both its Captain and President . |
| 21 | As the new parliamentary session began on April 23 the leading parties negotiated over who was to fill the posts of president of the Senate and leader of the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 22 | ( 11 December 1780 ) One of Mozart 's worries was the castrato who was to sing the part of Idamante : |
| 23 | The President nominated a Vice-President , who was to succeed the President should the latter be unable to complete a five-year term of office . |
| 24 | Kadi Samawna ( Seyh Bedreddin ) and specifies four men who , he says , led the criticism of Molla Fenari : Molla Burhan al-Din Haydar Herewi ( Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi ) , the mufti in Edirne " , who was to give the fetva sanctioning Seyh Bedreddin 's execution ; Molla Yegan ; Kutb al-Din Izniki-zade Baha " al-Din " Umar Celebi ( Bahaeddin Omer ) ; and the vezir Hajji " Iwad Pasha ( Haci Ivaz Pasa ) . |
| 25 | It was the Palace in CROWN SQUARE that Mary Queen of Scots gave birth in 1566 to her son , James , who was to unite the thrones of the two Kingdoms . |
| 26 | The Rev Alan Mackenzie , who was to guide the Association for thirteen years into modern times , succeeded Tom Crellin as Chairman . |
| 27 | Who was to weigh the difference in the urge ? |
| 28 | Flaherty asked who was to take the sketches to the Fire Court and the Gnomes at once looked alarmed , because had n't they already travelled all the way from Gallan and it a terrible long journey , never mind getting lost twice , as well as the Robemaker 's Workshops and the Cruachan Cavern being on the route . |
| 29 | The camps are historic , as much a part of history as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili who was to take the name of Stalin . |
| 30 | And then it was a question of who was to conduct the piece . |