Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 2 | The submarine , which was eventually to provide the best means of delivering the torpedo , was still an infant ; only one or two curious submersible craft had been built and they had not yet affected naval thinking . |
| 3 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 4 | Thus the civil war was powerfully to reinforce the centrifugal tendencies at work within the economy , and as Carr noted : |
| 5 | A major effect of this show of restraint was swiftly to reverse the recent downward trend of US-Israeli relations . |
| 6 | The cutting down of the scrub was merely to facilitate the minimal use by the goats — it was not for any wider purpose . |
| 7 | He missed the excitement which was soon to shake the Grand Hotel . |
| 8 | And he let the others in the cast know it , including that young actress , Sheila Hancock , who was soon to become the major star she now is . |
| 9 | One of these , at Brienne , was soon to have the young Napoleon Bonaparte as one of its pupils . |
| 10 | The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats , not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too . |
| 11 | The Foreign Office request puzzled him , for it was not to see the Foreign Secretary with whom he normally dealt , but the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 12 | The European problem was not to oppose the American proposal adamantly , but to find some compromise that would both satisfy the United States and assuage European fears of a revitalised German militarism . |
| 13 | The French refused to take part in the project because Dassault was not to receive the largest proportion of the contracts and , in June 1992 , Germany decided that , since the threat from the Warsaw pact was gone and she was unlikely to participate in out-of-area conflicts , she had no more use for the aircraft . |
| 14 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 15 | In August 1306 , at the pope 's request , Amanieu VII was granted the lordship of Meilhan in the Bazadais by Edward I. The grant was not to prejudice the existing rights of another lord , Auger de Mothe , to levy a lucrative toll or péage at Meilhan , but Albret willingly agreed to this because he and Auger had been ‘ companions and friends since their youth ’ ( a suis juventutibus fuerant socii et amici ) . |
| 16 | A month later , he broadened the case : the October revolution had qualitatively changed the context ; now the task was not to complete the bourgeois , but to establish the proletarian , revolution . |
| 17 | But Lord Cottenham 's bill , to which this leading article referred , was not to have the easy passage through the legislative machine the writer looked forward to . |
| 18 | He also realized that if large-scale economic and social organization on Marxist lines was ever to replace the small-scale realities of early Soviet life and improve the volume of exchange of goods between manufacturing plants and the villages , then efficient railways would serve as the thin edge of the wedge . |
| 19 | Laura also took positive steps to boost her designing team and hired a graduate from the Royal College of Art whose brief was imperceptibly to modify the Victorian image . |
| 20 | Shaw 's intent was always to challenge the conventional , which he did through dialogue-based plays of ideas . |
| 21 | Depression in the epoch of the absolutist restoration after 1814 was both to convert the commercial and industrial interests to liberalism and to destroy the confidence of the years of prosperity , cut short by the loss of the American market and the dislocations of the war of 1808–14 . |
| 22 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 23 | Sir William Douglas captured it from one of Edward Balliol 's English supporters , though he himself was later to join the English cause . |
| 24 | As it was , George Scott — who was later to captain the victorious Great Britain soccer team at the World Games for the Deaf at Amsterdam in 1928 ( see photograph on page 310 ) — but then a small schoolboy at Donaldson 's remembers : |
| 25 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 26 | One of the many Serbs who gained their first military experience during the brief Austrian interlude was Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) ( kara in Turkish = black ) , a pig dealer from the Šumadija , who was later to lead the Serbian revolt of 1804 and to be the founding father of one of the Serbian royal houses . |
| 27 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 28 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 29 | Frank Jacques was appointed from a large and well-qualified field of candidates ; one was later to become the General Secretary of the National Association of the WEA and another the chief Education Officer of a large county LEA . |
| 30 | KATHLEEN Meacock was later to become the second Mrs McAvoy after marrying the gang leader in jail . |