Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More junior staff came , who were to be a great help to us . |
| 2 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 3 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 4 | Despite these intentions there is some evidence , however , drawn from proposed schemes submitted by LEAs ( but never implemented ) , which suggests that in practice the allegedly integrated curriculum emphasized ‘ liberal ’ studies for the 14- to 16-year-olds who were to be the first age-group to attend under compulsion . |
| 5 | But all this re-creation of the old ways was also the creation of the Völkisch : the racially and culturally pure Aryans who were to be the master race destined to rule the world . |
| 6 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 7 | The other was to ask who were to be the leaders of armies , and by what criteria they might claim to lead . |
| 8 | While the idea of the two-stage revolution : liberation first , communism later : could be described as primitive Leninism , it may be seen that Ho 's approach to Communism was also two-track : town and country : not necessarily in that order : and his Revolutionary Youth League also functioned on two levels : the mass nationalist party and the inner core of Tam Tam Xa hotheads who were to be the nucleus of a future communist party . |
| 9 | Top talks as if it rested with me to settle who were to be the Unionist candidates for the constituencies . |
| 10 | There was a substantial issue of fact as to whether or not the elderly parents , who were to be the principal debtors , had received the letters written by the creditor advising them to take independent legal advice . |
| 11 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 12 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 13 | During this time it is likely that he also met Pompeo Batoni who was to be a considerable influence on his early manner . |
| 14 | Milhaez cradled his daughter in his lap , the one who was to be a doctor in England . |
| 15 | Louis Untermeyer , Robert Frost 's correspondent who was to be an influential anthologist , wrote of Poems ( The Freeman , 30 June 1920 ) that ‘ Eliot cares more for his art than he does for his attitudes ’ ; and that ‘ the exaltation which is the very breath of poetry — that combination of tenderness and toughness — is scarcely ever present in Eliot 's lines ’ . |
| 16 | The baby was only a sign and could only have been understood later in the light of the life of the person who was to be the Saviour of the world . |
| 17 | Now it was not simply the male , but the circumcised male who was to be the full participant in his nation 's covenantal law and cultic activities . |
| 18 | ‘ Tom ’ Ayliffe , who was to be the last miller . |
| 19 | Great Valour of Firgorran , who was to be the sire of the first Rottweiler to take Best in Show at Tux Nationals , Ch. |
| 20 | The final touch to the forward line came with seventeen-year-old Cliff Bastin , costing £2,000 from Exeter City , who was to be the last in a long line of Chapman discoveries that began with Fanny Walden twenty years before . |
| 21 | Commander Leonard Burt , who was to be the recipient of Joyce 's confessions many years later , noted this sense of grievance which characterised him as a young man : |
| 22 | Among these Pythagoreans was Lysis of Tarentum , who was to be the teacher of the Theban statesman Epaminondas , but attempts to link Theban politics with Pythagorean philosophy are not convincing . |
| 23 | As to the necklace , who was to be the judge of its value ? |
| 24 | A women 's meeting was held during the church congress at Portsmouth in 1885 and the bishop of Newcastle , who was to be the speaker , persuaded Mary Sumner to tell the audience about her dream of a union of mothers . |
| 25 | Er on the day of the event you went either your mother or somebody else 's mother Usually the custom was that the the boy who was to be the horse would be decorated either by his own mother , say , or or perhaps the person who he was s s he Who he was partnering as as as ploughman , you know , horseman . |
| 26 | Arafat said in a Guardian report of Oct. 22 that he had " appointed " Faisal al-Husseini " to head the Palestinian team " and that Haidar Abdel Shafi , a veteran PLO member from Gaza who was to be the main Palestinian speaker at the opening conference , was " only head of the negotiating delegation " . |