Example sentences of "it was [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office was linked to , but separate from , that of Chief Huntsman ( Grand Veneur ) , whose staff consisted of Captains and Lieutenants resplendent in green and gold , whose duty it was to organize the Imperial hunts , particularly — during the autumn season — those which were held at Compiègne . |
| 2 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 3 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |
| 4 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 5 | Last time it was to see the new designs at the boutique . |
| 6 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 7 | It was to block the normal processes of assimilation . |
| 8 | It was to form the ideal location for Mike Cavanagh 's motoring collection , started in 1959 during a protracted stay in South Africa . |
| 9 | His approximate area of operation then became known to Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock , whose responsibility it was to guard the southern tip of South America . |
| 10 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 11 | They could be viewed as the organ within the living organism whose task it was to supply the basic necessity of capital without any need to accord them a fuller role within the enterprise . |
| 12 | After its final reconstruction , it was to bear the main road and railway out of Portmadoc , named in honour of its founder , who , with sublime inconsistency , passionately espoused the fashionable ideals of picturesque landscape . |
| 13 | Dangerous as it was to betray the smallest complicity before Goreng and his goons , we both started to laugh . |
| 14 | It was to discuss the new storage and filing systems to be used for the archive of de Chavigny designs , which had been replanned from scratch at Edouard de Chavigny 's insistence , and which would become fully operational that week , when the archive was finally moved to its new headquarters . |
| 15 | One had a fairly strong feeling that part of their motivation was negative , in that it was to exclude the American participation , rather than positive — to build up the company . |
| 16 | It just was n't a thing you could ignore , and being alone at it was to combine the worst elements of being alone at any other time , and multiply them by two hundred and fifty . |
| 17 | Evolutionism provided a parallel source of materialist concepts , but needed to be turned into a laboratory-based subject if it was to fit the new model . |
| 18 | It was to become the major centre of learning in the Islamic world , and to provide a source of authority for successive rulers of Egypt . |
| 19 | Joshua , whose conceit it was to prefer the old gods to the new , took no part in the singing . |
| 20 | The treaty established a Consultative Committee whose task it was to advise the High Authority on all aspects of its work . |
| 21 | With slave labour they were cheaper to build than it was to provide the necessary lead or bronze piping for alternative means . |
| 22 | Second , I shall consider how this framework was used by the subject working parties whose job it was to produce the detailed lists of statements of attainment . |
| 23 | When Isabel at last returned to an awareness of her surroundings it was to feel the gentle touch of Guy 's mouth , moving over her throat in a series of feather-light kisses . |
| 24 | For the Elizabethan magus John Dee ( 1527–1608 ) , it was as imperative to study the specific characteristics of everything in nature as it was to understand the controlling influence of the stars . |