Example sentences of "[was/were] to he [art] " in BNC.
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1 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
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 | Just as Greek was to him a ‘ sacred language ’ , so ‘ every Baptist place should be Grecian , never Gothic ’ . |
5 | He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death . |
6 | The interpretation of his objective through committees , in which he could win over doubters , was to him a central part of the chairman 's task . |
7 | Both reactions intensified when Lord Wyatt looked around , surveying what was to him a motley collection of petty gentry , squires , and baronets . |
8 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | No one , he thought , and despised himself for what was to him an unnatural need . |
11 | Sharing photographs was to him an act of intimacy ; to show someone a photograph you took was to give them a ‘ deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned ’ . |
12 | 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 . |