Example sentences of "[noun] was to be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the principal figures within the Association was to be Henry Newbolt , imperialist poet , celebrant of the mystique of the public school , future chairman of the Board of Education Committee which reported on the state of English in 1921 , and — like Haldane — a supporter of the national efficiency group in its aims of planning imperial policy , improving education , and recapturing commercial prosperity . |
| 2 | My brew for this breeding attempt was to be tap water , rain water and tap water filtered through peat in equal measures , which gave me readings of 6pH and 2DH |
| 3 | United States officials announced on March 19 that the new Soviet ambassador to Washington was to be Viktor Komplektov . |
| 4 | The intermediary was to be Queen Victoria , whose eldest daughter had married the Prussian Crown Prince , and in the hope of enlisting the Queen 's support Eugénie was once again despatched to England in August 1869 . |
| 5 | The chairman was Lord Renwick ( of Associated Television ) and the Chief Executive Director was to be Geoffrey Pardoe , the Project Manager of the just-cancelled Blue Streak rocket . |
| 6 | The show following was to be Frank Cellier 's Dorothy — a true musical play , or comedy . |
| 7 | The consequence of these developments was to be party government . |
| 8 | These have to do , inter alia , with technology : for instance , the World Broadcasting Satellite Administrative Radio Conference WARC 1977 ) allocation of the frequency spectrum for DBS conceived of as a national service , or the video communications or ‘ cable ’ plan of 1982 , whereby France was to be world leader in interactive fibre-optic networks — and so win export orders . |
| 9 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |