Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it was mostly to do with Feargal 's behaviour , and her own shaming enjoyment of it . |
| 2 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose it was all to do with origins , sergeant , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It was all to do with instinct , unsullied intelligence and an innate ability to discount the higher promptings of reason . |
| 5 | As Jesus insisted in Luke 24:47 , it was all to begin in Jerusalem : hence the emphasis on Jerusalem as the place where the Pentecostal gift arrived . |
| 6 | This was less to do with Olivier 's plunging rousingly into ‘ Once more into the breach , dear friends ’ than with his own attempts to plunge ‘ Once more into the bra straps , dear friend ’ . |
| 7 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 8 | In the early years , this was less to do with protests from the outside than with poor decision-making and technical incompetence on the inside . |
| 9 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 10 | Brian was waiting for her when she returned to her room , a room which was soon to fill with flowers . |
| 11 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 12 | John was soon to appear at Exeter in the court of which he previously graced the bench — this time in the dock . |
| 13 | The ‘ great windy parlour ’ at the front of the building was soon to become for Coleridge a place in which he felt more at home than in his own tiny cottage , and it was there that he and Poole were later to spend long sociable hours with the Wordsworths , Charles Lamb , Hazlitt and others . |
| 14 | BP and Shell shares overcame a profit downgrading from County NatWest and moved ahead , although the gain was largely to realign with Friday 's rises on Wall Street . |
| 15 | She spent a year working for the writer Charles Morgan , but all the time her real purpose was somehow to work with Eliot himself . |
| 16 | Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens refused to describe the actions as an exchange ; the Belgian government 's official policy was not to negotiate with terrorists . |
| 17 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 18 | Emancipation was not to arrive without conflict and growing recognition of that truth stimulated a more radical strain in antislavery which took the form of the demand for immediate emancipation . |
| 19 | As Derrida ( 1978b , p. 234 ) noted , Artaudian theatre was not to refer to life or represent life but instead to be life . |
| 20 | Apart from this reference , and despite all the subsequent exchanges between AFHQ and subordinate commands on both Cossacks and Yugoslavs which were to follow in succeeding days , AFHQ was not to refer to Robertson 's order again . |
| 21 | What they wanted was not to deal with individuals , but with principles . |
| 22 | Under the terms of this contract , property in the car was not to transfer to X until he had paid Four Point Garage . |
| 23 | The Guidelines issued by SCOTVEC to panel members explained that the main purpose of a validation event was not to scrutinise in detail the documentation but rather to use the information provided to enable an informed discussion about the proposal to take place . |
| 24 | But for the first time , and not the last , Elizabeth had to agree to support Scottish rebels against their rightful queen ; it was a nightmare created in 1559 which was not to end until Mary 's death in 1587 . |
| 25 | I was not to believe in appearances … but why , why , why ? |
| 26 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 27 | Unresolved , I clung to the nub of " I " , perhaps sensing that I needed " I " if was ever to hurtle to freedom . |
| 28 | In England the custom was still to rely on pew rents and on subscriptions being paid directly to the chapel . |
| 29 | This was more to do with window dressing and the government 's need to be seen to be doing something , rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problems . |
| 30 | Like many other such dreams , this one did not work out and the reason would seem to be that same old American resistance to working seriously in FI — it happened with Roger Penske , it happened with Parnelli as it was later to happen with Karl Haas . |