Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the deal , the implementing contract for which was to be negotiated over the following 12 months , enriched uranium reportedly totalling 500 tonnes would be sold by Russia for hard currency needed to complete urgent repairs to its nuclear power plants . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 4 | It was announced on Jan. 22 that Italy was providing aid estimated at US$142,000,000 , part of which was to be used to assist in the reintegration of demobilized soldiers into civilian life . |
| 5 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 6 | In a meeting with the King on 3 October 1688 , the bishops asked James to dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and promise never to erect " any such court again " , to " desist from the Exercise of such a Dispensing power as hath of late been used " ( the determination of which was to be left to Parliament ) , to restore the corporations and the universities , and to give office only to those who were legally qualified . |
| 7 | Fishing under licence was to continue within the original 150-mile zone , but no fishing was to be allowed in the new zone , to be regarded as an area of Anglo-Argentine co-operation , the eastern half of which was to be patrolled by the Falklands and the western half by Argentina since it overlapped with part of its 200-mile territorial waters . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Before long , my engineers designed a prototype of what was to be called COMPARM ( Compact Arm ) . |
| 11 | Neville Duke at the helm of P.1067 WB188 — the prototype of what was to be called the Hunter . |
| 12 | Secondly , there was the emergence of what was to be a continuing question for EC policy , namely the issue of " additionality " . |
| 13 | However , he tried some of the journalistic pieces in what was to be the second posthumous volume . |
| 14 | ‘ Night was preferred to day for whatever was to be done . |
| 15 | The first community charge bill that dropped through my letter box , and those of thousands of my constituents , was for £376 , £346 of which was to be spent by the Labour-controlled county council : that was stated on the bill . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town . |
| 18 | Indeed , a working-class culture , the passing of which was to be lamented by social commentators in the 1950s , was being largely created in these closing decades of the nineteenth century , and the new or transformed working-class standards were to become deeply embedded . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | clarified the objective of whatever was to be discussed |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |