Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] was to be " in BNC.
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1 | Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured . |
2 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
3 | This must be a taste of how it was to be a Marine in armour , whose servo-suit responded to the motions of his body , magnifying these … |
4 | The most critical part of the whole job was planning exactly what needed to be done , how it was to be done and when . |
5 | We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done . |
6 | Cold water and washing soap , this was how it was to be . |
7 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
8 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
9 | This was not how it was to be . |
10 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
11 | He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea . |
12 | Precisely how he was to be enticed aboard a suitable vessel remained in doubt , particularly as the DEA neither owned nor controlled a suitable vessel . |
13 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
14 | Feargal had n't asked anyone where she was to be put , just brought her up here . |
15 | Francis Yuen , the controversial head of the Hong Kong stock exchange , announced his resignation on Sept. 6 with effect from Oct. 26 , when he was to be succeeded by Paul Chow . |
16 | Duhalde had tendered his resignation with effect from Dec. 11 , when he was to be sworn in as Governor of the province of Buenos Aires , a post which he had won in the Sept. 8 elections [ see p. 38434 ] . |
17 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
18 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
19 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
20 | The completed upholstery was finished at the point where it was to be fixed in the coach . |
21 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
22 | A decision to pipe crude oil from the B.P. Forties Field in the North Sea to a new terminal at Hound Point from where it was to be shipped outwards , raised doubts about safety of navigation in the River Forth . |
23 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |