Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's letters from Frankfurt are full of references to a mysterious deal that was to be the solution to all their problems . |
| 2 | On the other hand , he received , even in infancy , the opposition that was to be repeated throughout his life , ending with crucifixion . |
| 3 | Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work . |
| 4 | As Democratic majority leader in the Senate between 1954 and 1960 , he had perfected the " Johnson treatment " , a technique that was to be of immense value to him in the presidency . |
| 5 | Use of the library resource centre means that the children would have immediate access to a much larger collection than can normally be gathered in a series of project or topic boxes , of the kind that were to be gathered for the use of the eight groups in this example . |
| 6 | With the amount of work that was to be dealt with during the coming months his chances of getting away from the hospital much before eight or nine any evening were very slight . |
| 7 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |
| 8 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 9 | According to de Lattre , France had spent too much blood and treasure for the Vietnamese to expect the sort of independence that was to be found in the British Commonwealth . |
| 10 | Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level . |
| 11 | The barrel of the gun and all the areas of the engine that were to be given a metal finish were then painted Chaos Black . |
| 12 | Historicity is a mode of knowledge for some societies but can not ipso facto claim to be the fundamental basis of knowledge for all of them — a point that was to be re-emphasized by Foucault in The Order of Things . |
| 13 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 14 | Now , Paul is addressing a group — and that group is the colony of heaven that was to be found in Ephesus . |
| 15 | The vocal lines of these early cantatas consist mostly of that kind of declamatory melody or nearly melodious recitative that was to be later known as arioso . |
| 16 | That is one version : another is that Arnoux was using Nguyen as a police spy , a charge that was to be made again and again . |
| 17 | The view was almost identical with Gifford Tate 's picture which the doctor had shown him — the picture that was to be the next ‘ new ’ Tate . |
| 18 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 19 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 20 | Like Iris , I was impatient now to get on with the journey south and see the vessel that was to be our home , but when I saw Chanchán … |
| 21 | Sheffield already had that working-class character that was to be so marked during Victorian times . |
| 22 | The sight of his small and snake-like frame weaving through packed defences virtually established the image of the tiny and recalcitrant Scottish forward , a mantle that was to be worn with tetchy pride by successors like Willie Henderson , Jimmy Johnstone , Gordon Strachan , David Speedie and Mo Johnston . |
| 23 | And the dream took her into hospital where the nice young man was lying in bed with his head bandaged and she was holding his hand ; and the dream brought a little comfort to the events of a night that was to be the turning point in her life . |
| 24 | It was felt that such speed limits were not practical over the wide area that was to be covered by the experiment , and that it would be better to scrap such treatment of individual streets and instead integrate such areas into a widespread system of 30 km/h streets . |
| 25 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 26 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 27 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
| 28 | In the above circumstances , there would simply be a special condition attaching to the draft contract , which would recite the deed that was to be the root of title , and the matter would be left at that until after contracts were exchanged . |
| 29 | In connection with the Festival of Britain Exhibition that was to be held at South Bank in 1951 , some major road works were carried out between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Station , streets in that area being made ‘ one way ’ at the same time . |
| 30 | He felt like a potato in the soil dreaming of the vodka that was to be made of it . |