Example sentences of "[was/were] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 2 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 3 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 4 | C. Most of the pits sunk about a hundred years ago were to mine the coal which was near the surface , within about 20 fathoms ( 40 m ) depth or so . |
| 5 | He knew beforehand that on April 8 the Royal Navy were to mine the fjords off Narvik , in neutral Norway 's territorial waters , and he was one of the first to learn of Germany 's devastating response , a full-scale invasion the next day . |
| 6 | This presence in and with the community was to them the sign of the kingdom of God on earth . |
| 7 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 8 | His study , with its big untidy desk strewn with folders of notes and the proofs of a book he was correcting , was to him the most congenial room in the house . |
| 9 | Northam was to her the very image of unfertile ground , and yet other people lived there and stayed there when they had money in the bank and legs to walk away on . |
| 10 | Thomas Gunson , of Middlesex , a glass seller , was to he the treasurer or receiver — advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen . |