Example sentences of "[noun] who [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 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 | A fireman who was to be flogged for alcohol offences in Saudi Arabia is back home after winning a last-minute reprieve . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The previous month though saw the much publicized reception of dissident exiles from the mainland who were to be allowed to settle in Taiwan . |
| 7 | The parliament of 1337 culminated in a series of festivities in which Edward honoured many of the nobles who were to be his companions in arms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This second expedition to Benghazi is not mentioned in any official documents and it has all the hallmarks of a David Stirling private-enterprise job , especially in view of the personnel who were to be involved . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | One former teacher , Virginia Doyle who was to be discovered in retirement in Sherwood Forest , Toronto , remembered him as a clowning , cunning boy who was good enough to get high marks without apparently doing a lick of work . |
| 14 | However , he emphasised that Ukraine wanted a share of the resources allocated to the former Soviet Union by Germany , for resettling on its territory some of the former Soviet servicemen who were to be withdrawn from Germany by 1994 [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 15 | During this time it is likely that he also met Pompeo Batoni who was to be a considerable influence on his early manner . |
| 16 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 17 | The memo continues by stating that if the group who were to be part of the first squadron returned by road , they would waste too much time and should therefore be flown back to collect the new vehicles and supplies needed at Kufra . |
| 18 | As for Odovacer , he has sometimes been identified with the warleader who was to be responsible for the deposition of the last emperor , Romulus Augustulus , in 476 . |
| 19 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 20 | The tall major who was to be Charles 's Company Commander opened elegant french windows onto a terrace . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then we were introduced to Dr William Howlett Kelleher who was to be our new Superintendent . |
| 25 | But she was n't quick enough for the woman who was to be Artemis 's new mother . |
| 26 | 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 … ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Having shaken hands with the dignitaries she moved to the quartet of golf professionals who were to be presented to her — Manuel Cabálleros , Gerhard Bugner , Des O'Grady and Andy Kyle . |
| 29 | The remaining beneficiaries were to include former UNITA members who were to be re-integrated into society , as well as refugees returning from neighbouring countries , Europe and the United States . |
| 30 | 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 . |