Example sentences of "[prep] what [was/were] to be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zola Budd , in what was to be her last season , was to resume rivalry with Ingrid Kristiansen and Maricica Puica . |
| 2 | Educated , urban Spaniards demanded institutional and constitutional reforms , some going so far as to favour the monarchy 's replacement by a republic ; in Catalonia and the Basque country , where distinctive languages and cultures existed , rising nationalist movements opposed the regime 's centralizing character ; in Morocco , Spain and her army became embroiled in what was to be her last colonial war ; and two mass forces of the left , socialism and anarchism , emerged to offer organized protest against the injustices of Spanish society . |
| 3 | The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April . |
| 4 | When he carne back from what was to be his last visit to the city of his youth his high temperature had worsened and he was advised to rest by the club doctor . |
| 5 | On his father 's death , Farrar abandoned his professional career content to live off the income from his father 's estate which he managed admirably , and instead concentrated on what was to be his lifetime 's consuming interest — the compilation of literature on deafness . |