Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lower faculties were employed in practical activities , the performance of which was to be relegated , as far as possible , to lower kinds of people , not worthy to be fully educated . |
| 2 | Indeed , a working-class culture , the passing of which was to be lamented by social commentators in the 1950s , was being largely created in these closing decades of the nineteenth century , and the new or transformed working-class standards were to become deeply embedded . |
| 3 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 4 | He was to visit units of all the three divisions in the Corps area , each of which was to be concerned with the repatriations . |
| 5 | However , Mikoian was favourably impressed with the enthusiasm and commitment of the Cuban revolutionaries and , on 13 February , he signed a trade agreement , by which the Soviet Union undertook to buy 5 million tons ( m.t. ) of sugar over five years , 20 per cent of which was to be paid for in hard currency and the remainder in Soviet goods , including 6 million barrels of oil per year . |
| 6 | The first community charge bill that dropped through my letter box , and those of thousands of my constituents , was for £376 , £346 of which was to be spent by the Labour-controlled county council : that was stated on the bill . |
| 7 | The package also included cuts in defence expenditure of A$80,000,000 and in social security spending , an increase in taxation on luxury cars , and an increase in public expenditure of A$323,000,000 , much of which was to be directed towards child care and road improvements ( US$1.00=A$1.3151 as at Feb. 19 , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Fishing under licence was to continue within the original 150-mile zone , but no fishing was to be allowed in the new zone , to be regarded as an area of Anglo-Argentine co-operation , the eastern half of which was to be patrolled by the Falklands and the western half by Argentina since it overlapped with part of its 200-mile territorial waters . |
| 9 | It was announced on Jan. 22 that Italy was providing aid estimated at US$142,000,000 , part of which was to be used to assist in the reintegration of demobilized soldiers into civilian life . |
| 10 | In a meeting with the King on 3 October 1688 , the bishops asked James to dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and promise never to erect " any such court again " , to " desist from the Exercise of such a Dispensing power as hath of late been used " ( the determination of which was to be left to Parliament ) , to restore the corporations and the universities , and to give office only to those who were legally qualified . |
| 11 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 12 | To do this the Germans had divided the Verdun front into a number of very small sectors , each of which was to be patrolled twenty-four hours a day by two planes . |
| 13 | A four-year training period was proposed , the first two years of which were to be spent at Bedford , where probationers could be prepared for the preliminary examination . |
| 14 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 15 | No details were released of selection procedures for this committee , members of which were to be represented in the Legco until 2003 . |
| 16 | The compromise plan involved a phased US withdrawal over a three-year period , the modalities of which were to be worked out by a special panel which would be chaired by the chief presidential aide , Franklin Drilon . |
| 17 | On Oct. 25 the Hungarian Defence Minister Lajos Für and his Austrian counterpart Werner Fasslabend signed a 15-point agreement on bilateral military co-operation , the details of which were to be worked out by chiefs of staff . |
| 18 | An agreement signed in Paris on Nov. 12 and worth several hundred million French francs ( the first F30,000,000 of which were to be spent in 1992 ) provided for French technical assistance to help Russia dismantle its nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Although the Bill of Rights was important for enumerating various " Liberties of this Kingdom " ( Some of which were to be similarly expressed during the following century in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution ) , its essential purpose was to assert the position of Parliament in relation to the Crown . |
| 20 | clarified the objective of whatever was to be discussed |
| 21 | For Engels its significance lies in the fact that it was seen as the basis of what was to be the most dramatic change in the history of mankind . |
| 22 | Before long , my engineers designed a prototype of what was to be called COMPARM ( Compact Arm ) . |
| 23 | Neville Duke at the helm of P.1067 WB188 — the prototype of what was to be called the Hunter . |
| 24 | Spanish socialism , meanwhile , was in the early stages of what was to be termed ‘ bolshevization ’ : a shift towards revolutionary positions in which moderates like Prieto found themselves struggling to retain influence and party office . |
| 25 | Some of the lesser priced Modernist works were of greater interest , Edward Hopper 's 1926–28 watercolour , ‘ Gloucester houses ’ ( lot 143 est. $300–400,000 ) , bought cheaply by the Jordan-Volpe Gallery , for $300,000 ( £187,500 ) was a brilliant example of what was to be one of his most popular subjects . |
| 26 | By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town . |
| 27 | This was a prelude to his speech on 21 February 1957 when he proclaimed his konsepsi ( conception ) of what was to be Guided Democracy . |
| 28 | Although not unaware of the benefits in increased production which the new agrochemicals had allowed , she drew attention , in a passionate book , to the long-term dangers : With words like these Rachel Carson placed farming practice at the centre of what was to be an often rancorous controversy about the compatibility of efficient , profitable and cheap food production with the ecological balance of the countryside . |
| 29 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 30 | Success for Bonallack was not to be long delayed , for in 1961 he won the championship for the first of what was to be five times , the fifth being at Royal Co Down in 1970 , the last occasion on which it was held in Northern Ireland . |