Example sentences of "which was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the line of the river Loire which was to save the French . |
| 2 | That did not change till the Peloponnesian War , one effect of which was to erode the Corinthian middle class . |
| 3 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 4 | In 1769 Thomas Pickering , a tin-plate manufacturer in Southwark , patented a method of raising patterns in sheet iron which was to affect the production of coffin furniture . |
| 5 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 6 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 7 | However , responses to Newbolt were to become the focus of the first major ideological rift within the class-based cultural movement , a rift which was to undermine the strategy proposed in the Report and usher in an era in which English would be constituted in much more limited cultural terms . |
| 8 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 9 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 10 | On 22 December 1986 the Council of Ministers adopted four Regulations , the effect of which was to implement the application of the competition rules of the Treaty of Rome to the maritime transport sector . |
| 11 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 12 | The fortunes of the Trelawney family , which was to include the famed bishop , and the Bullers , to include Sir Redvers Buller of Boer War fame , stemmed largely from the downfall of the Winslade family , long holders of the manor of Tregarrick . |
| 13 | Further changes were requested , one of which was to include the Scottish Crown in the four corners of the carpet , reflecting the one used on the ceiling of the Throne Room . |
| 14 | Even a nervous pull into the greenside bunker with his third shot at the par-five 18th , which was to open the door for Stewart and Olazabal , could not prevent it being Langer 's day . |
| 15 | To some extent there was a contradiction between the declared aim of the service , which was to organize the transition from school to full-time wage-earning in a thoughtful and informed manner so that the adolescents went into respectable occupations with long-term prospects , and the policy actually pursued . |
| 16 | This immediately implied that the developmental role was , at least initially , to be quite distinct from routine casework support for clients and carers ( which was to remain the responsibility of generic area teams ) . |
| 17 | It 's for that reason that I still support the original line which was to merge the centres with a common management structure headed by a single head of the project . |
| 18 | Ruskin 's foundation , which was to promote the education of working men in Sheffield , was not unlike that of the Victoria and Albert Museum — both reflected Victorian anguish over what was seen as a loss of artistic standards in industrial manufacture and craftsmanship . |
| 19 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 20 | Their goalkeeper , Neville Southall , was preparing to clear the ball upfield and making no haste about it when the referee , George Tyson , booked him for time-wasting and awarded Forest the indirect free-kick which was to decide the match . |
| 21 | Despite disagreements about the payment of her dowry , Margaret 's marriage gave rise to a military and diplomatic alliance between the houses of Foix-Bearn and L'Isle Jourdain , concluded in January 1298 , which was to serve the counts well in their quarrel with the house of Armagnac . |
| 22 | His whimsical friend , Aubrey , was also strongly against corporal punishment , although he allowed the use of thumbscrews as a last resort ! 18 Indeed , Locke 's book encapsulates what was clearly a new and growing attitude towards child-rearing and education which was to improve the lot of the child in the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 24 | In 1927 the Bledisloe Commission submitted a report which was to form the basis of the 1930 Land Drainage Act , the ground rules of which have dominated land drainage to the present day . |
| 25 | The Central Committee then circulated to the Serbian Party a document which was to form the basis of compulsory discussions in all party organizations , with the accompanying demand that there should be a ‘ differentiation ’ . |
| 26 | He was already determined to be a poet — between 1787 and 1789 he had composed An Evening Walk — and part of the aim of his 1790 long vacation walking-tour was to gather the material which was to form the basis of Descriptive Sketches . |
| 27 | Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years . |
| 28 | A decision fell to be made here — whether the castle party should cross first , or the larger group which was to form the barrier ? |
| 29 | Off the shoreward side of the platform debris fell which was to form the two billion barrel Pozo Rica field . |
| 30 | The important feature was the metal face , the purpose of which was to support the load . |