Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 2 | Arthur told the lordly one that it was to be sent to Mr and Mrs Stokes , but Fred knew whom it was tacitly meant for , because he had read in newspaper gossip columns about dukes laying down pipes of port when heirs were born . |
| 3 | Witty , ambitious and idealistic , his ambition was to be elected to Parliament , his dream to become Prime Minister . |
| 4 | In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy . |
| 5 | Legislation to implement the reforms was to be presented to Legco in early 1993 . |
| 6 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 7 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 8 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 9 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 10 | Here the discussion paper proposed a very strict rule : the assessment was to be made by reference to the contractual maturity of the debt , and no consideration was to be given to facilities which would permit it to be re-financed . |
| 11 | Under this treaty , a vast area from Calais in the north to Aquitaine in the south was to be ceded to Edward to hold in full sovereignty . |
| 12 | The syllabuses for GCE and CSE always prescribed quite clearly what was to be taught to pupils from the age of fourteen upwards . |
| 13 | The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death . |
| 14 | One of the pictured men was to be brought to trial accused of murdering Julie . |
| 15 | I have a Crown Court appearance in Birmingham and as far as I 'm aware my solicitors have been in contact with the prosecution in this part of the country to explain the procedure and as far as I 'm aware the committal this morning was to be committed to Birmingham Crown Court with other offenses . |
| 16 | I have a Crown Court appearance in Birmingham and as far as I 'm aware my solicitors have been in contact with the prosecution in this part of the country to explain the procedure and as far as I 'm aware the committal this morning was to be committed to Birmingham Crown Court with other offences . |
| 17 | Brightness 's destiny — so we were informed — was to be returned to prison where she will have to perform mindless tricks for the entertainment of rouble-paying humans . |
| 18 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 19 | His idea of a day out was to be driven to Heathrow , to watch the aircraft landing and taking off . |
| 20 | The L & NWR Loco Committee Minutes of 9 February 1847 state that water was to be supplied to tenants willing to pay an extra rent of 2p per week . |
| 21 | The question whether any weight was to be attached to evidence of actual transactions , and if so how much , was one of fact . |
| 22 | State investment , rare enough in itself , was earmarked for industry ( in the 1923 national budget less than 5 per cent was to be allocated to agriculture ) . |
| 23 | The increase was to be backdated to June 1 and would rise to 75 per cent by the last quarter of 1991 . |
| 24 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 25 | Thank God , they had both made rational choices in marrying each other ( she had kept her maiden name because , well , other considerations apart , Maynard was to be preferred to Badcock ) … |
| 26 | However , the right to seek such compensation under section 40(1) was to be restricted to cases where the employee could demonstrate that his invention was ‘ of outstanding benefit to the employer ’ . |
| 27 | Pilger and Hayling wrote a job description outlining the editor in chief 's total power over the editor , which was to be shown to applicants for the editor 's job so they would know the position . |
| 28 | In December the Economic Planning Board announced further measures to attract foreign investors in preparation for 1992 when the South Korean stock market was to be opened to foreigners . |
| 29 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 30 | In a meeting with the King on 3 October 1688 , the bishops asked James to dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and promise never to erect " any such court again " , to " desist from the Exercise of such a Dispensing power as hath of late been used " ( the determination of which was to be left to Parliament ) , to restore the corporations and the universities , and to give office only to those who were legally qualified . |