Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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former Soviet Union by Germany , for resettling on its territory some of the former Soviet servicemen who were to be withdrawn from Germany by 1994 [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A new breed of men had emerged from the vague grey ranks of the judiciary to stamp themselves on the nation 's consciousness : the glamorous investigating magistrates and Public Prosecutors who were to be seen on the news every evening leading the fight against political violence and organized crime . |
| 13 | A similar effort can be seen in the ukaz of 1797 by which the Tsar Paul ordered the admission to the College of Foreign Affairs of thirty young men who were to be trained there for diplomatic careers . |
| 14 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 15 | The Manchurian Academy trained others who were to be prominent after 1945 . |
| 16 | They were not to swear or gamble , and the only women who were to be allowed on crusade were washerwomen of good character ( for crusaders were supposed to be neatly , though not ostentatiously dressed ) . |
| 17 | Tom proposed that two of these should be used as studs , or servers ; there were five women who were to be brood mares for the plantation . |
| 18 | Life as a second lieutenant in the Guards with little prospect of action did not appeal , although by the time the Germans invaded France in May 1940 , Stirling was in Chamonix training with a force of experienced skiers who were to be sent to help the Finns . |
| 19 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |