Example sentences of "was clearly to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 2 | Construction was clearly to a very high standard , with fine flush- riveting on the thick wing skins ' upper surfaces . |
| 3 | The inference that was clearly to be drawn from their study was that land reform/land redistribution was the critical factor in the peasant problem : even if the peasants ' lot could be improved by less drastic means . |
| 4 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 5 | Whatever was meant to be payable at all , under this agreement , was clearly to be payable by half-yearly instalments of £150 each ; any other construction must necessarily make the conditional promise nugatory . |
| 6 | But it was clearly to any one firm 's advantage if somewhere was elsewhere . |