Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All were answered at length in a meticulous hand and , from a closer study of these letters , much can be learned of this gardener who was to be acknowledged as the greatest of his time . |
| 3 | The tall major who was to be Charles 's Company Commander opened elegant french windows onto a terrace . |
| 4 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 5 | In fact his schedule was then changed , and on 24 May Gen McCreery began his tour of 5 Corps area by visiting units of 46 Division who were to be concerned with the repatriation of the Cossacks . |
| 6 | Ben , his assistant Lucy , John Gould and I sat in amazement as Phyl , the rosy , cosy raven-haired lady who was to be my dresser , mounted an enormous step-ladder and began pinning on to the backcloth , yard after yard after metre after metre of off-white gauze curtaining . |