Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four days later the Military Council , which had ruled in Georgia since the flight of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January [ see pp. 38731-32 ] , transferred its legislative and executive powers to a newly created State Council of which Shevardnadze was to be the chair . |
| 2 | The turmoil that emerged both immediately before and after Mayer 's departure epitomized , perhaps more than in any other of the major Hollywood studios , the convulsions of change that were sweeping through the film capital , eventually spawning an underground of new , raw and raucous talent of which Nicholson was to be part . |
| 3 | There were to be brief respites from the prolonged drought , one of which Gould was to be most fortunate to encounter , but the settlers were still facing a period of unparalleled hardship . |
| 4 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1325 Isabella reached an agreement with Charles under which Gascony was to be occupied by the French until Edward did homage to Charles , when the duchy would be restored to him . |
| 6 | Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down . |