Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fireman who was to be flogged for alcohol offences in Saudi Arabia is back home after winning a last-minute reprieve . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The previous month though saw the much publicized reception of dissident exiles from the mainland who were to be allowed to settle in Taiwan . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The tall major who was to be Charles 's Company Commander opened elegant french windows onto a terrace . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But she was n't quick enough for the woman who was to be Artemis 's new mother . |
| 15 | A close political ally was Airey Neave , a former intelligence officer who was to be murdered by the IRA in the precincts of Westminster . |
| 16 | The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a tremendous time in British deaf history , not just because of the events that took place and the deeds that were done , but also because of the men of remarkable ability and calibre who were to be giants amongst deaf , and hearing , people . |