Example sentences of "was to have a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes .
2 Almost six weeks later , something took place which was to have a lasting effect upon the Judge family ; and it happened quite unexpectedly , without any warning .
3 But in July 1855 he then carried out a change in his administration that was to have a far-reaching effect on the scheme .
4 This antagonism and rivalry existed between the large towns : to take one example , the rivalry of Santiago , the cathedral city , and Corunna , the seaport , was to have a decisive influence on the fate of liberal revolutionary movements in nineteenth-century Galicia .
5 Ye never knew what it was to have a dacent meal in yer belly until ye married me ! ’
6 But the sociology of knowledge was to have a bridging role in the progress towards a scientific truth that would lead to a revelation of human essence ( Stark 1958 : 209 ) .
7 There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew .
8 Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world .
9 It was this interplay of ideas and practical events that lay behind the ‘ interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s and 1970s and was to have a powerful influence over both psychological and sociological thinking about crime and deviance .
10 The lesser main road from Twycross to the local market-town of Ashby de la Zouch was to have a minimum width of twenty-two yards ; and the other roads of the parish were to be ‘ of a proper width ’ .
11 His theology , nonetheless , was to have a major influence upon atonement thinking , and helped to shape modern thought .
12 The dispute threatened to spread to Woolwich , Birmingham , Belfast and other centres of the munitions industry ; the legislation of December 1915 was to have a major impact on British housing policy .
13 The purpose of the visit was to have a private audience with the Pope and also to visit the departments in the Vatican that I had particular interest in .
14 Her idea was to have a first-aid kit in the catering department as an essential safety precaution .
15 The Russian Revolution , however , was to have a dramatic impact on the Party .
16 Gatting 's altercation with Shakoor Rana was to have a considerable effect on the West Indies Test rubber .
17 A forceful , clean striker , he made an unbeaten 94 in a defeat by Essex in May — a result which was to have a significant bearing on the championship — and soon afterwards scored a maiden century against Kent .
18 One of Noverre 's choreographic masterpieces , Don Juan ( with music by Gluck ) , was to have a significant influence on Mozart 's own Don Giovanni .
19 It was to have a big effect on my whole life .
20 The First World War and its impact on British society was to have a profound significance for the emergence of British fascism .
21 This development was to have a profound effect on all life to come , for if hydrogen is removed from water , the element that remains is oxygen .
22 This application of technology to domestic systems of commodity production was to have a profound effect on the old feudal merchant and artisan classes and lead , eventually , to their challenging the dominance of the landowning class .
23 During the war the Cubist concept of the work of art as an autonomous , constructed object became more and more widespread and was to have a profound effect on the emergence of Purism , one of the pictorial styles to which Cubism helped give birth .
24 This was to have a profound effect on the development of settlement , land use and the landscape .
25 It is from this carefully defined power base that the concept of the Holy Roman Empire began — a concept that was to have a profound effect upon European history .
26 By coincidence it was also Epstein who brought Modigliani together with a woman writer who was to have a profound effect upon his life — Beatrice Hastings .
27 The nation that was to provide this salutary lesson was Russia , and it was a lesson that was to have a profound effect in Japan .
28 Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history .
29 The original intention was to have a flexible rate of development charge .
30 The ideological division of women into two classes , the virtuous and the fallen , was already well developed by the mid-eighteenth century : its reality was to have a vivid impact on the Victorian imagination .
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