Example sentences of "[adv] was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rivalry that tamed a continent , harnessing the resources of harsh environments and creating an economy that before long was to give the United States the industrial leadership of the world . |
| 2 | Hale 's choice to retain the medieval approach to consent in the case of married women only was to shape the course of the law up to the present day . |
| 3 | His purpose in doing so was to create the illusion that major political decisions were not taken by one man , but in a collegiate way , by the representatives of the people . |
| 4 | And the one that I added in was to identify the options available to the group regarding future ownership . |
| 5 | To open the door and step inside was to leave the atmosphere of a hospital . |
| 6 | One further adopted measure thus was to offset the carriageway or create a chicane by using planting on one side only and switching the right-angle parking from one side to the other ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 7 | Yorkshire , too , despite having many talented players and one great one in Hutton , were unable to reclaim their pre-war supremacy and Yardley 's best was to share the championship with Middlesex in 1949 . |
| 8 | However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards . |
| 9 | Cottle , who four years later was to publish the Lyrical Ballads and in old age produced his garrulous and unreliable Reminiscences , immediately saw in Coleridge the signs of ‘ commanding genius ’ , but reserved for Southey 's ‘ great suavity of manners ’ his more enthusiastic praise . |
| 10 | She joined the Old Vic Company ( which later was to become the Sadler 's Wells Opera ) in the 1923-4 season as a member of the chorus . |
| 11 | Neither the murder of Sigibert in 575 , nor that of Chilperic nine years later was to alter the political map of the Merovingian kingdoms in the way that the death of Charibert had done , since they each left a single male heir . |
| 12 | The aim clearly was to bring the masses into accord with the perceived notions of naturalness and stability that the bourgeoisie adhered to , and to which the lower middle classes aspired . |
| 13 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 14 | His only concern right now was to board the Berne-bound goods train within the next few minutes . |
| 15 | The only hope now was to reach the hand-pump in the galley and see if he could keep the level within bounds . |
| 16 | Whilst previous research had analysed how the workforce was reproduced — how young people became young workers — the problem now was to explain the consequences of Government schemes , new kinds of training and the responses to unemployment . |
| 17 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |
| 18 | Her job now was to plan the future . |
| 19 | But in Anselm 's eyes , her wearing of the veil bound her irretrievably to the monastic life : to draw back now was to take the road to damnation . |
| 20 | The only function I could perform now was to take the body back to Skeldale House for disposal . |
| 21 | The principal aim now was to refute the growing argument that nuclear power could avoid the damage to the environment through the greenhouse effect , but the mixture of suggestions ranging from solar power to replacing light bulbs with those which consumed seventy-five per cent less energy seemed naïve and hardly convincing . |
| 22 | All Vologsky had to do now was to fly the Foxbat across the Chinese border and bring her out safely again . |
| 23 | The question whether this brought the world nearer to inevitable self-destruction or , paradoxically , made it stabler and safer from major war than ever before was to occupy the best minds of the decade . |
| 24 | Mr Birdsall added : ‘ The reason we changed the meals around was to avoid the cost of bringing in outside caterers . ’ |
| 25 | The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation . |
| 26 | Erm something we did omit , which we should not have done , earlier was to mention the fire escape scenario and that is that if you go out of this door , just the coffee table there 's a large marked fire exit . |
| 27 | The thought which came most readily was to restrict the amount of paper which each student could use and to force them to be more economical with it . |
| 28 | The habit of the British overseas was to replicate the governing patterns of the Establishment in London , with its loose formal structure and very tight informal one , articulated through a wide variety of social occasions , and Egypt was no exception . |
| 29 | Now the duties I had to do there was to take the place of what the Provost of the town did before you see . |
| 30 | The present Mayor of Antwerp and promoter of the city as cultural capital , Mr Cools , was formerly responsible for Antwerp 's cultural heritage , and one of his projects then was to turn the Jacob Jordaens House into a museum , much like the Rubenshuis . |