Example sentences of "what [was/were] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At some point , between the end of the prosecution in December and the beginning of the defence in February , Noriega 's lawyers abandoned what was to be a sensational defence : a claim that Noriega was a dupe of CIA-contract pilots running guns to Nicaraguan Contras and returning home via Panama with cocaine . |
| 6 | Barber then began what was to be a 43 year long career with May & Baker , as research chemist under Dr A. J. Ewins , FRS , carrying out process research in support of the manufacture of products such as neoarsphenamine ( NAB ) for treating syphilis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Secondly , there was the emergence of what was to be a continuing question for EC policy , namely the issue of " additionality " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What was to be the future of their house in Belfast ? |
| 15 | He claimed to be feeling like ‘ a bit of chewed-up string ’ when he walked out for what was to be the finest ride of his life . |
| 16 | When the Eighth Army turned and stood for what was to be the first battle of Alamein , a tiny force consisting of the 11th Field Regiment and a part of the Essex Regiment was rushed to the Ruweisat Ridge with orders to plug the vital gap between the South African positions on the coast and the New Zealanders on the edge of the Quattara Depression . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday . |
| 19 | A few minutes before 5pm on Sunday , December 1st , all France it seemed was either holding its breath or , like team captain , Yannick Noah , was in prayer , as Forget , who had been well beaten in the opening rubber of the match by Andre Agassi , prepared to serve what was to be the final game of the 1991 competition . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town . |
| 22 | In the south of the county what was to be the most appalling town of all — St Helens — was just beginning to defile its surroundings . |
| 23 | The Leningrad historian , R.G. Skrynnikov , has suggested , though not without challenge , that it was in 1582 rather than 1581 , that the first foray or ‘ expedition ’ of cossack conquistadors under the leadership of ataman Yermak Timofeevich scored an unspectacular military victory over the tiny Tatar princedom of Sibir , then ruled by Khan Kuchum , thus laying the foundations for what was to be the irresistible Russian Drang nach Osten . |
| 24 | Before separation , what was to be the U.S.A. was close against southern Europe and northern Africa , and it is only the Gulf Stream that makes our Labradorian latitudes bearable . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , he tried some of the journalistic pieces in what was to be the second posthumous volume . |
| 27 | In the sixth issue- and what was to be the most famous Australian Oz — the magazine reprinted a Lennie Bruce feature from the Realist , providing a print debut for the comedian in Sydney . |
| 28 | Barely two weeks after the Jarama carnage , Franco launched what was to be the last Nationalist attempt to take Madrid , with an attack to the north-east of the city , in the province of Guadalajara . |