Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 2 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 3 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 4 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 5 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 6 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 7 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 8 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 9 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 10 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 11 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 12 | The thing was to keep her as Brown Owl of the 2nd Longreen Pack . |
| 13 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 14 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 15 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 16 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 17 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 18 | His approach was to nudge me in certain directions , and very quickly I came to a number of revelations . |
| 19 | There was no time to hand pick and develop enough trainees , and the only solution was to capture them from other firms . |
| 20 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |
| 21 | This animal 's reaction to certain sequences of notes was to throw itself into uncontrollable convulsions . |