Example sentences of "[noun prp] which [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France . |
| 2 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 3 | The committee has been given a £200 donation from Texaco Britain which was to be used to buy a new drysuit . |
| 4 | Bantry Bay was the first engagement of the Anglo-French war officially declared by William on 7 May 1689 ; Holland had already begun hostilities in February , the start of that great international effort to prevent Louis XIV dominating Europe which was to be William 's main preoccupation till his death and to shape English naval and military policy for years to come . |
| 5 | The date of the change was 1494 , the year of Charles VIII 's Italian campaign , beginning the destructive French , and therefore Spanish , involvement in Italy which was to be such a dominant theme in European politics and war in the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career . |
| 7 | Their task , Saddam said , was to pinpoint the buildings in Baghdad which were to be attacked . |
| 8 | And Moffat himself seemed hopeful of a political solution based on an independent Vietnam which was to be associated with or even part of the French Union . |
| 9 | In 1938 and 1939 he appeared under Sir Thomas Beecham [ q.v. ] at Covent Garden in his three greatest Mozartian roles and in a German-language Bartered Bride ; and after the war he insisted on taking part there with his old colleagues , the visiting Vienna State Opera , as Don Ottavio in a Don Giovanni at Covent Garden which was to be his final stage appearance , in September 1947 . |