Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Howard , mitigating , said his clients had not got fat through this scam — it was merely to stay solvent during the worst years of the recession . |
| 2 | Robin Howard , mitigating , said his clients had not got fat through this scam — it was merely to stay solvent during the worst years of the recession . |
| 3 | The law was not to take effect until the end of March . |
| 4 | The purpose , he says , ‘ was not to give succour to the victims of harassment , but to polarise the ethnic minorities and the police . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 6 | November of that year , a son was born to Queen Victoria , named Edward , but he was not to become King until the beginning of the next century . |
| 7 | The entry clearance officer ( ECO ) said he was not satisfied that the primary purpose of Mr Hussain 's intended marriage was not to obtain admittance to the UK . |
| 8 | The difficulty for the thieves was not to gain possession of the animal , but to arrange for its profitable disposal . |
| 9 | Berg was also an agent of the Office of Strategic Services , which was later to give birth to the CIA . |
| 10 | Although Nizan was later to pour scorn on the moral self-righteousness and indignation of a non-communist majority in France venting its spleen on the treacherousness of the USSR , 8 and although he was also to recognise the Soviet Union 's need to act expediently at a time of impending international disaster , 9 nonetheless something fundamental had clearly snapped in Nizan 's psychology . |
| 11 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Avitus was later to become bishop of the same see . |
| 14 | On December 7th too , when the matter was raised at a meeting of the President and principals , the operation was presented by McFarlane as essentially prospective , something that had not happened yet ; but the purpose of the meeting was also to justify policy after the fact . |
| 15 | This study was also to take account of the principle — enshrined in the OAU charter — of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries . |
| 16 | This study was also to take account of the principle — enshrined in the OAU charter — of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries . |
| 17 | The authority initiating the request had , however , to be identified in the written request delivered by the consul , which was also to contain information about the parties and the nature of the document to be served and was to be prepared in the language of the state of destination . |
| 18 | This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs . |
| 19 | Corbett was about to alert Maltote to the truth when he tensed . |
| 20 | The time for repairs , it would seem , was about to give way to the time for offence , if not injury . |
| 21 | The 51-year-old man was about to deposit cash in the Midland Bank in Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , when he stopped his car in the bank 's back yard . |
| 22 | No-one in Britain knew yet how Neighbours was about to take hold of the nation , but many also turned down Kylie , telling her management … |
| 23 | Reports had come in before the Central Co-ordinating Committee adjourned that the British government was about to take control of the refinery at Sydenham and the distribution of petrol and oil throughout Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine . |
| 25 | ‘ I was about to become hamburger on the rocks ’ , he admits . |
| 26 | In concert with the Governments of the other ten Member States , this was subtly to put pressure on the Danes to change their minds . |
| 27 | One means was actually to take control of the youth 's entry into full-time wage-earning , in order to control the transition from school to work and , by offering vocational guidance and encouraging attendance at continuation schools together with an after-care system , to set initial standards with regard to attitudes and behaviour . |