Example sentences of "was [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | S Group was led by Group Captain Donald Bennett , who we heard was a most formidable gentleman from ‘ down under ’ and who was mostly to be found at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon or at Wyton RAF Station , a few miles away . |
| 2 | Building societies , for the finance of house building or purchase , grew rapidly and by the end of the century attracted many small investors , but their appeal was rather to tradesmen and the lower-middle class than to manual workers . |
| 3 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 4 | Shiksas were to promise an escape from Jewish America , as the promised land of Israel was eventually to be evoked as doing for Henry Zuckerman . |
| 5 | Mr Biffen , who was later to become Leader of the Commons and Lord President of the Council , and was eventually to be sacked by You-Know-Who for wholly ideological reasons , was marched back to the hotel to cover himself . |
| 6 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 7 | Each of the great oases of Central Asia was eventually to be graced with powerfully squat four-square stone-built stations , perfectly symbolizing the implacable toughness of Russian power . |
| 8 | Of those influences incomparably the most important was the spread of nationalism ; it is ironic that this European idea was eventually to be the most powerful force undermining Europe 's colonial supremacy . |
| 9 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 10 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 11 | The basis of future regional policy and its instruments was eventually to be found in the Thompson Report ( 1973 ) on the regional problems of the enlarged EC , which reaffirmed the view that in the long term , monetary union was not possible without an effective regional policy . |
| 12 | I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage . |
| 13 | The stratified approach to Urban Programme funding , with in essence a fourfold division of councils — Partnerships , Programme Authorities , Other Designated Districts and traditional Urban Programme councils — was effectively to be abandoned . |
| 14 | Then it was on to Switzerland and , finally , by road to Belgium . |
| 15 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 16 | The next day it was on to Kalamazoo , Michigan , and family and community . |
| 17 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 18 | From there it was on to more readings . |
| 19 | The fourth day it was on to Stirling and a literary society . |
| 20 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 21 | And if few found the work easy to like , most recognised that Koons was on to something brilliant . |
| 22 | From Hucknall it was on to Annesley where a large shed provided motive power for the famous Woodford freights known as ‘ Windcutters ’ or ‘ Runners ’ . |
| 23 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 24 | Then it was on to St Germain for the French Open . |
| 25 | Another Methuselah of Lutomer Riesling later , it was on to the Safeway own-brand cod fish fingers served on a bed of baked beans , accompanied by large dishes of McCain 's oven chips and Findus frozen peas , with a choice of HP sauce or plain ketchup . |
| 26 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 27 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |
| 28 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 29 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 30 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |