Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 2 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 3 | BETWEEN 1945 , WHEN the war ended , and 1956 when the first Reichmann son , Edward , appeared in Canada , Samuel engaged in a programme of frenzied European activity , the purpose of which was to gather together the early Reichmann millions . |
| 4 | To move a character from set A to set B you needed to write in a short bridging scene , the effect of which was to stretch out the script with padding , which was not always the best thing for the story . |
| 5 | It was the Grunwick dispute which was to show conclusively the effectiveness of ACAS , hailed till then as ‘ a concession to the workers ’ . |
| 6 | On returning to England he served as a staff captain in the War Office and then as an assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence , an appointment which was to alter completely the course of his career . |