Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh det] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His increasingly independent protégée locked herself away in a London dance studio for three weeks perfecting what was to be one of the most talked about dance routines of the pop year . |
| 2 | The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems . |
| 3 | The police at Southampton had got in touch with Bath , asking what was to be done with the bike , as it had apparently been abandoned . |
| 4 | Some heads of department involved other staff in producing their self-appraisal reports , either through discussing what was to be written at department meetings and/or asking members of the department to write parts of it . |
| 5 | While France hesitated , Britain acted decisively by sending an army to crush Arabi 's men at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 , and imposing what was to be in all but name the British occupation of Egypt . |