Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 2 | The economic provisions of NEP were soon to act as a slow salve on the material well-being of the peasantry , but even before NEP had begun all political bridges between the centre and a free-thinking periphery had been burnt with the establishment of a one-party system and the elimination of any traces of local independence in the party hierarchy . |
| 3 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 4 | This was all to change on a pleasant spring day in 1947 . |
| 5 | The illusion was only to precipitate into a historical fact — the proletariat 's birth and growth — history 's total meaning , to believe that history itself organized its own recovery , that the proletariat 's power would be its own suppression , the negation of the negation . |
| 6 | Waugh might have agreed even with the complaint about surface faults , which he was shortly to concede in a new preface and expunge by revision . |
| 7 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 8 | Kim Il Sung was not to emerge as a major personality until after 1945 . |
| 9 | It was clear that the lines were drawn and that the two countries would have to compromise or find allies if the conference was not to degenerate into a complete fiasco . |
| 10 | Young was later to go through an Engels-like change of heart , though it was clear that he was sceptical from the start ( see his contribution to Taylor , Walton and Young , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 12 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 13 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 14 | I was soaked and shivering and was about to return in a desultory spirit to my hotel to take whatever food was offered there at whatever price , when I noticed an indoor shopping centre and darted in , shaking myself out like a dog . |
| 15 | Denis screamed as Cohen was about to go into a renewed bout of laughter . |
| 16 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 17 | She was about to veer in a different direction when she felt an arm like steel round her waist . |
| 18 | He grabbed her arm as she was about to knock on a frosted-glass door halfway down the corridor . |
| 19 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 20 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
| 21 | Work was about to start on a new street through to Clerkenwell Green and excavations were under way to raise the level of the road by several feet . |
| 22 | He was about to embark on a new life in New York with the most boring woman in Britain . |
| 23 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 24 | Lewis was about to embark on a three-stranded career . |
| 25 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |
| 26 | She was reminded of a remark in Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix — ‘ Such a foolish conceit , in both senses , eh ? ’ — and she wondered if she was about to succumb to a similar temptation . |
| 27 | ( When all the women were reading Mrs Henry Wood , and Marie Corelli was about to burst upon a waiting world . ) |