Example sentences of "[was/were] to [pron] the [adj] " 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 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 5 | 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 . |