Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand the unequivocal wording of the promise and the particular path of demand management which was to be followed were indeed due to a growing intellectual conviction at the centre of the government machine that full employment need not involve root-and-branch change in the economy and society . |
| 2 | Reaffirmed their decision of 3rd November that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote , preferably on the Report stage of the Bill in the House of Commons ; and agreed that Ministers who dissented from the advice which was to be tendered in accordance with Conclusion above should be free , if they so desired , to vote for the abolition of the death penalty , though they should refrain from expressing in debate views contrary to that advice ; … |
| 3 | THE LORD PRESIDENT invited the Cabinet to review their decision that Ministers should be free to vote against the advice which was to be given on this issue by the responsible Minister as representing the considered view of the Government . |
| 4 | Although the staff had not appreciated it , the listings of London events were quite crucial , and had given It a stranglehold on the London market , which was to be broken . |
| 5 | These lower faculties were employed in practical activities , the performance of which was to be relegated , as far as possible , to lower kinds of people , not worthy to be fully educated . |
| 6 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
| 7 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 8 | The union 's lawyers decided to apologise , and the editor was directed to approve the apology which was to be made in open court . |
| 9 | At six o'clock everyone assembled for dinner and Mr Priddy signalled that the first course could be taken in , a heavy tureen of mock turtle soup which was to be served from a side table . |
| 10 | Atkinson 's planning appears to have influenced Burn considerably , Blairquhan having the same stepped relationship of asymmetrical main block and a private wing ending in a low tower , a formula which was to be repeated in many Burn houses . |
| 11 | He was respectful but unalarmed when the King appeared and after a moment 's silence he chose to laugh at the likeness and the revelation that they were distant cousins ; indeed , so little was Rassendyll impressed that he noted that the King 's mouth lacked ‘ something of the firmness ( or obstinacy ) which was to be gathered from my close-shutting lips ’ . |
| 12 | He announced a major round of government-funded construction expenditure , which was to be funded by special bonds , and a reinforcement of the country 's financial structure . |
| 13 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 14 | At the same time as Shirley Williams ( Secretary of State for Education in the Callaghan administration which was to be defeated in the General Election of 1979 ) was conducting the ‘ Great Debate ’ , inspectors from her Department were beginning a process of evaluation of the nation 's schools . |
| 15 | Johnny McNichol came to Selhurst Park in March 1958 as Manager Cyril Spiers ' last desperate attempt to prevent the Palace from becoming founder members of the new national 4th Division , which was to be formed from the clubs in the bottom halves of the regional 3rd Divisions of 1957–58 . |
| 16 | To measure the strength of the magnetic field , he supplied a gaussmeter which was to be operated by the young Argentinian physicist , Dr Eduardo Balanovski . |
| 17 | At their meeting in either 1749 or 1750 , Christopher Smart accepted this task from Richardson ; however , he delayed writing the piece which was to be printed in the volume . |
| 18 | This was not entirely a semantic shift , and was to foreshadow a much wider change in attitude to the relationship between the state and the economy , which was to be felt throughout the 1980s . |
| 19 | The commons then agreed to a subsidy of £50,000 which was to be raised by the novel expedient of imposing a levy on each parish in England . |
| 20 | This conclusion was the fons et origo of the barrage of criticism which was to be heaped on the notion of a stable trade off relation in the wake of Milton Friedman 's |
| 21 | Less extreme in deformation , quieter and less agitated in mood , these paintings form a prelude to the important work which was to be done by Picasso during the summer in Spain at Horta de San Juan . |
| 22 | Kim Milson , who won the first match , once again won his section and was leading the series , yours truly in second place and perfectly placed going into the third match which was to be fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton . |
| 23 | Major commitments in the concluding joint statement ( i ) ratified previous commitments made under the 1987 Esquipulas II or " Arias " peace process [ see pp. 35440-42 ] and welcomed new peace dialogues in El Salvador and Guatemala [ see below ] ; ( ii ) re-affirmed commitments to strengthen and consolidate democracy in the region and to respect human rights ; ( iii ) expressed satisfaction with the running of the recent Nicaraguan elections [ see p. 37236 ] and demanded an immediate start to the demobilization and disarming of the contra rebels under UN supervision which was to be completed by April 27 [ but see pp. 37370-71 ] ; ( iv ) agreed on a meeting of a joint regional security commission to take place in Costa Rica on May 15 ; ( v ) undertook to reorganize , strengthen and reactivate regional economic integration , to review foreign debt conditions and to urge the international financial community to provide additional resources under favourable terms ; and ( vi ) agreed on regional co-operation to eliminate illegal drug trafficking . |
| 24 | They were bought , along with other items of equipment , for a new tourist line which was to be constructed on part of the former 4ft.0ins. gauge Padarm Railway . |
| 25 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | Gerard and his mother went to London , renting a house in Hampstead Garden Suburb which was to be Hoffnung 's home for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | The new territory , which was to be carved from the eastern reaches of the vast Northwest Territories and would stretch from the Manitoba border to the North Pole , was to be known as Nunavut , an Eskimo term meaning " our land " . |
| 28 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 29 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 30 | They are reported to have requested ( 1 ) that the confirmation of Christian bishops of Jerusalem , Antioch , Ephesus and Alexandria be revoked ; ( 2 ) that these bishoprics be conferred instead on members of the Desposyni ; and ( 3 ) that Christian churches ‘ resume ’ sending money to the Desposyni Church in Jerusalem , which was to be regarded as the definitive Mother Church . |