Example sentences of "[prep] what [was/were] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Engels its significance lies in the fact that it was seen as the basis of what was to be the most dramatic change in the history of mankind . |
| 2 | Before long , my engineers designed a prototype of what was to be called COMPARM ( Compact Arm ) . |
| 3 | Neville Duke at the helm of P.1067 WB188 — the prototype of what was to be called the Hunter . |
| 4 | Spanish socialism , meanwhile , was in the early stages of what was to be termed ‘ bolshevization ’ : a shift towards revolutionary positions in which moderates like Prieto found themselves struggling to retain influence and party office . |
| 5 | Some of the lesser priced Modernist works were of greater interest , Edward Hopper 's 1926–28 watercolour , ‘ Gloucester houses ’ ( lot 143 est. $300–400,000 ) , bought cheaply by the Jordan-Volpe Gallery , for $300,000 ( £187,500 ) was a brilliant example of what was to be one of his most popular subjects . |
| 6 | By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town . |
| 7 | This was a prelude to his speech on 21 February 1957 when he proclaimed his konsepsi ( conception ) of what was to be Guided Democracy . |
| 8 | Although not unaware of the benefits in increased production which the new agrochemicals had allowed , she drew attention , in a passionate book , to the long-term dangers : With words like these Rachel Carson placed farming practice at the centre of what was to be an often rancorous controversy about the compatibility of efficient , profitable and cheap food production with the ecological balance of the countryside . |
| 9 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 10 | Success for Bonallack was not to be long delayed , for in 1961 he won the championship for the first of what was to be five times , the fifth being at Royal Co Down in 1970 , the last occasion on which it was held in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Secondly , there was the emergence of what was to be a continuing question for EC policy , namely the issue of " additionality " . |
| 12 | However , the need to maximize the anti-power sharing vote convinced both DUP and Vanguard to instruct their followers to vote for the other party as their second or third preference in what was to be a single transferable vote type of proportional representation election . |
| 13 | During his period in England from 1831 to 1832 , in what was to be the first of several such sojourns , Louis-Napoleon met his uncle Joseph — only to be received with a glacial politeness and a lecture on his Italian escapade . |
| 14 | Zola Budd , in what was to be her last season , was to resume rivalry with Ingrid Kristiansen and Maricica Puica . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These duties had to be fulfilled alongside those of his conventional publishing business , and he was also supposed to be writing a scene for inclusion in what was to be a filmed version of Murder in the Cathedral . |
| 17 | Aunt Tossie had a faint dribble of desire at the corners of her mouth when , at length , she laid down the slate pencil and rose from her chair to face Mrs Geary , her companion in what was to be an immortal triumph : its finale that most acceptable of puddings before diets and regimens were conceived : a really beautiful Trifle . |
| 18 | However , he tried some of the journalistic pieces in what was to be the second posthumous volume . |
| 19 | That 's what happened when Ferguson fought Ray Mercer in what was to be a tune-up for Mercer before a £1.6 million challenge to Bowe . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 22 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was Alexander Herzen ( 1812–70 ) who , having emigrated to the West in 1847 , began to give currency to what was to be the dominant theme of the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia for the next four decades . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On what was to be the patient 's last night at the Hall Louisa looked up from her reading and saw that Emilia was in tears . |
| 27 | He worked out his positions very much through polemical critique of others , and tended to be clearer about what was to be rejected than about what was to be put constructively in its place . |
| 28 | He worked out his positions very much through polemical critique of others , and tended to be clearer about what was to be rejected than about what was to be put constructively in its place . |
| 29 | It never occurred to her to worry about what was to be done with her , though she wryly thought that the hospitality of the military establishment seemed to be a constant throughout human history . |
| 30 | So he did not wish greatly to eat , although he did , and he kept the same singing pitch running through his being as he talked quietly with Tuathal and Eochaid and the others about what was to be done ; which meant what Siward would do . |