Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much information was eventually to emerge from medical sources . |
| 2 | The worker was eventually to benefit from better conditions of work ; for the moment , electricity probably affected him most by providing transport for travel to his work from greater distances . |
| 3 | It was all to do with National Smile Week . |
| 4 | This phenomenon was noted in the central press , where the lenders were often referred to as ‘ beglye ’ ( unstable ) : however the shaky nature of their new-found prosperity , like the uncertain fits and starts of NEP in economic terms , was soon to turn into solid gains which looked like becoming permanent . |
| 5 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 6 | Mr Patten told the National House Building Council in London that his aim in the public rental sector was not to move to market-level rents or to end rent subsidies for the less well off . |
| 7 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 8 | That lead was not to last with United levelling 11 minutes later . |
| 9 | The standard of care owed by a competitor to a spectator was not to act with reckless disregard for the spectator 's safety . |
| 10 | Indeed , immediately the election was over — and as the nationalists planned a campaign of civil disobedience — Scottish Tory ministers seemed to acknowledge as much , recognising that the tough ‘ no compromise ’ stance needed modification if mounting resentment was not to explode into violent disorder . |
| 11 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 12 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 13 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 14 | Fletcher 's book was not to appear in Russian for another fifty-seven years . |
| 15 | Er I 'm often asked what it was like to live in those eventful days and as Colonel just said well , you used to make an awful lot of noise . |
| 16 | The ten boys were patently enjoying their notoriety , though , and after lunch-time Toby decided that sympathy had better , give way to a brisk , enough-of-this approach if the boarding block was ever to return to normal . |
| 17 | Lear was always to suffer from this apparent rejection . |
| 18 | Any trouble she gave her last pilot was more to do with adverse conditions and those middle years of neglect than any flaw in her constitution . |
| 19 | There was no stopping the first , but the second ; well it was more to do with bad defence , than good attack . |
| 20 | The essence of this programme was constitutional reform , but , in addition , de Gaulle committed the Rassemblement to a theoretically radical scheme of profit-sharing and worker participation in management ( which he termed " association capital-travail " ) and to a vaguely-worded economic liberalism , whose aim was clearly to capitalize on popular frustration with the continuing economic hardships ( 1947 saw the bread ration reduced on two occasions ) . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that Ludus ' then manager , Richard Boon ( former Buzzcocks manager and ‘ New Hormones ’ supremo ) was later to move to Rough Trade and become instrumental in the signing of The Smiths . |
| 22 | While the company was later to compromise on this method of operation , cyanide understandably enough having had its share of bad press , by suggesting gravity extraction ( which as well as being cleaner was also cheaper ) as a technical fix to the opposition to cyanide , the opposition had by then extended its attack to issues such as blasting , dust pollution and the contradiction between the short-term benefits mining would bring and the long-term development of the area threatened by mining . |
| 23 | In his later years , he was also to suffer from persistent bronchial trouble and emphysema exacerbated by his smoking . |
| 24 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 25 | During his last agonies Donne was often to glance towards this fearesome drawing . |
| 26 | But back on the marshes and fens , who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation ? |
| 27 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
| 28 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 29 | I was here to win at all costs and did so in rather fine style . ’ |
| 30 | She 'd wept and said he was n't to talk like that . |