Example sentences of "who [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 2 | As a result of this and subsequent deliberations it was agreed to form a local defence force consisting of 60 cavalrymen , who were to extend their protection ‘ … as far as any adjoining town not exceeding 20 miles distance from Frome ’ , together with 100 infantry . |
| 3 | The man who was to kill her mother rode calmly up the drive of the great house . |
| 4 | Lord Beverley , later fifth Duke of Northumberland , and Michelangelo Caetani , an artist who was to succeed his father as Duca di Sermoneta . |
| 5 | Thus he met Tally Jackson , who was to give his name to the book that Liebow finally wrote , Tally 's Corner : |
| 6 | In 1039 Earl Leofric of Mercia 's brother Edwin was killed in battle by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn , king of Gwynedd and Powys ( north and mid-Wales ) , who was to extend his power over all his countrymen before meeting his death during Harold Godwinsson 's Welsh campaign of 1063 . |
| 7 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 8 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 9 | Airlines attracted the attention of corporate buccaneers like Carl Icahn who was to turn his attention to that icon of American might USX ( the former United Steel ) . |
| 10 | In 1966 , he met Sergio Galeotti , the man who was to shape his destiny , at the seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi — where Armani still has a beach house today . |
| 11 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 12 | Of these , commencing its odyssey some time after Peter 's death , and with the participation of the Academy of Sciences , the most famous was the Second Kamchatka , or ‘ Great Northern ’ expedition , led by the Danish seaman , Vitus Bering , who was to lend his name to the narrow straits separating Siberia from the American continent at the northern extremity of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 13 | We were introduced to Dr Adams of the London School of Economics who was to supervise our course . |
| 14 | Rosina , a Yugoslavian , and the woman who was to become his wife , arrived in the same town five years later . |
| 15 | In contrast , his stage work included a role in The Sound of Music on Broadway in 1961 , in which the baby-faced 22-year-old sang ‘ Sixteen Going On Seventeen ’ to Laurie Peters , who was to become his wife , and Romeo and Ariel at the California National Shakespeare Festival . |
| 16 | That was when he had met Dinah , who was to become his wife . |
| 17 | From the time they could read and write and understand , Stepan Holovich and Ilya , who was to become his wife , had known of the battle . |
| 18 | During his convalescence he met the girl who was to become his wife at the local hunt ball and married her before returning to France . |
| 19 | In his Genesee Diary , Henri Nouwen wrote of his first encounter with John Eudes , head of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani , who was to become his director : |
| 20 | Then when , a few months later , I met the man who was to become my husband , I was told in no uncertain terms that Helen — would n't you know it ? — did not approve . |
| 21 | The Earl of Nottingham , a Tory who was to make his peace with the Revolution , nevertheless opposed the invitation , condemning it as " high treason , in violation of the Laws … and that allegiance which I ow 'd to the Soveraigne and which I had confirm 'd by my solemn oath " . |
| 22 | Among them was Danse macabre , staged to music of Saint-Saëns by a young dancer , Alfred Rodrigues , who was to make his career , like Cranko , mainly as a choreographer in Europe . |