Example sentences of "what was [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Henry Broadhurst at the 1877 Trades Union Congress expressed what was to become a very important element in working-class respectable ideology . |
| 2 | In what was to become a highly politicized era in which the most urgent questions concerned the political and economic significance of the masses it was inevitable that there would be a more intensive scrutiny of the role of film and that more demanding questions would be asked of Hollywood . |
| 3 | France , however , clearly led the world in the development of what was to become an increasingly important element in international relations . |
| 4 | On 1 April 1990 prisoners took over the Strangeways Prison , Manchester in what was to become the most prolonged protest against inhuman and degrading conditions in penal institutions . |
| 5 | Next came what was to prove a particularly important development for the future evolution of Islam . |
| 6 | In focusing thus sharply on the question of the relation between religious faith and historical knowledge , Lessing put his finger on what was to prove a more or less permanently controversial topic in theology from his day to this . |
| 7 | So far so good — but this still left me with what was to prove the most controversial part of the whole social security review . |
| 8 | What was to prove the most far-reaching of the changes introduced in the July 1951 cabinet was the elevation to ministerial rank of Admiral Carrero Blanco 's position as director of the office of the head of government ; and the one which best exemplified the combination of new and old , change and ossification , was the creation of a Ministry of Information and Tourism . |