Example sentences of "of [Wh det] was 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 clarified the objective of whatever was to be discussed
14 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 .
15 Before long , my engineers designed a prototype of what was to be called COMPARM ( Compact Arm ) .
16 Neville Duke at the helm of P.1067 WB188 — the prototype of what was to be called the Hunter .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town .
20 This was a prelude to his speech on 21 February 1957 when he proclaimed his konsepsi ( conception ) of what was to be Guided Democracy .
21 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 .
22 She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be .
23 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 .
24 Secondly , there was the emergence of what was to be a continuing question for EC policy , namely the issue of " additionality " .
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