Example sentences of "was [to-vb] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference delegates were severely critical of Denis Sassou-Nguesso , who was to remain President , but with greatly reduced executive powers , during the transitional period . |
| 2 | To put teeth into it , Pomgol was chaired by M. I. Kalinin , who was to become president of the newly formed USSR in December 1922 . |
| 3 | Not that the senator needed a beautician 's help if he was to become President , for George Crowninshield was a good-looking man with a strong-boned face and a head of thick black hair . |
| 4 | One of the few salutary notes in the debate was provided by the Labour Party spokesman , Roy Jenkins ( who was to become President of the EEC Commission in the late 1970s ) , who said , |
| 5 | These comments are not intended to challenge Hsu 's competence as a social anthropologist ( later on he was to become President of the American Anthropological Association ) , but to point up the fact that the understandable , and indeed laudable , desire on the part of some social anthropologists to study their own society is beset with hazards . |