Example sentences of "[pers pn] was to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 2 | It was to the Women 's Institutes that the government turned to organize communal preservation of home grown produce throughout the land . |
| 3 | When she spoke it was to the shoes . |
| 4 | And this just reinforces the ancient sexist perception that the word woman is somehow embarrassing and offensive ( as it was to the Victorians , who associated it with sex and low class status ) . |
| 5 | He got out of here , though it was to the colours . |
| 6 | The press-book heralded Black Legion as the ‘ Truest To Life Film Ever Made ’ and if this claim was meant to refer to the actual Detroit trial it was to the settings of the film that the most audiences would have applied it . |
| 7 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
| 8 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 9 | The occasion for the controversy was the foundation of a central agency to produce goods for sale by Co-operative stores ; and it was to the workers in the agency 's factories that the question related . |
| 10 | That 's what they reckon they used to do but he , I mean he was an old Jew , he was but he was , he was to the Germans . |