Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years . |
| 2 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 3 | Her mother , Anne , was related to Colonel William Connock of Cornwall , who was to fight for James II in Ireland , and was cousin to Richard Lower , the physiologist [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | The still-vexed issue which the 1930 act attempted to resolve was who was to pay for drainage . |
| 5 | But meanwhile , who was to pay for this room ? |
| 6 | There were bitter recriminations within the party about who was to blame for her decision to resign . |
| 7 | It was never clear who was to blame for starting the niggles , but there could be no argument that , on the day , the Taiwanese were the better team . |
| 8 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 9 | And many were the times when she had wanted to bawl at him , ‘ And who was to blame for that ? |
| 10 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
| 11 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |
| 12 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
| 13 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 14 | Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims . |