Example sentences of "[was/were] have [adj] consequence " in BNC.

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1 There can be no doubt that such hostilities were having important consequences ; they created opportunities for new dynastic families to emerge .
2 Such incidents were symptomatic of tensions within the socialist movement that were to have long-term consequences .
3 In religious terms , these two exilic and post-exilic developments — i.e. the concentration upon ritual purity and the sharp differentiation in male — female social function — were to have far-reaching consequences for women .
4 Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent .
5 The moment was to have fateful consequences for the whole of Europe .
6 This alteration in the basis of national status was to have devastating consequences for the present and future population of the United Kingdom .
7 It was a friendship that was to have terrible consequences .
8 This was to have decisive consequences .
9 This was to have decisive consequences in the ensuing campaign .
10 Whatever the cause , the solution was to have major consequences in terms of the later political history of the Merovingians .
11 This was to have major consequences for public enterprise .
12 This was an indispensable prelude to the development of the concept of personal life , a sphere of individuality and self-development , based on material prosperity , but focused on the cultivation of individuality , which in its turn was to have important consequences on the specification of sexuality .
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