Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was eventually to undertake six campaigns in Lombardy to subdue and punish rebellious cities , grown rich through the boom in manufacturing and commerce , and increasingly independent of the old feudal authority . |
| 2 | His Elizabethan successors were weak men ; it was a victory for local gentry which was eventually to have profound results when the royal interests of the |
| 3 | Lee claimed that his intention was merely to discourage religious interference in politics in Singapore 's delicately balanced multicultural society . |
| 4 | To recapitulate , the effect of the complicated network of legislation which was now ( 1954 ) in force was basically to create two values of land according to whether it was sold in the open market or acquired by a public authority . |
| 5 | The idea was basically to produce some kind of semi-independent Greece . |
| 6 | Years later , when posted to Buenos Aires as a senior executive of British American Tobacco , he was unhappily to make international news when kidnapped in South America . |
| 7 | His plan was obviously to process enough drugs to flood all human-occupied space . |
| 8 | But when he spoke again it was only to express some anxiety about the conduct of the services while he was away . |
| 9 | He also said that Iran was soon to acquire fighter-bomber aircraft from countries other than the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | A leading Israeli journalist was soon to ascribe that misjudgment to the ‘ historic blindness ’ that has always bedevilled Israeli governments and public , ensuring that developments which , to outsiders , might seem all but pre-ordained come as a very disagreeable shock to them . |
| 11 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 12 | Olwen did n't know at that time that the commitment was soon to become twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 13 | Hefner himself was soon to develop this idea in his so-called ‘ Playboy Philosophy ’ at tedious length . |
| 14 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 15 | The overall effect of these changes was largely to remove local authorities ' financial independence . |
| 16 | The method was just to contact British Telecom 's customer services department and ask to be disconnected . |
| 17 | If PCs were networked , it was normally to share expensive resources , such as printers or mass storage . |
| 18 | Coins are generally found in the same region as their mint , since the function of a mint was usually to supply that region with coinage . |
| 19 | It seems a fair bet that Joe Public finds it as hard to feel sorry for rodents as Winston Smith did , and though these lobotomised specimens were of the cuter white kind , it was possibly to watch this sequence without feeling many qualms . |
| 20 | From childhood onwards he was a dedicated if uncritical student of Irish language and literature : his view of Ireland past , present , and future was always to have mystical overtones . |
| 21 | My aim was always to build working models that I could control . |
| 22 | ‘ But my aim was always to get that ball . |
| 23 | Within the sacrificial procedure , the prescription was always to select male victims for the more important occasions . |
| 24 | The intention was clearly to deter younger fans from getting into what were viewed as ‘ trouble spots ’ and , at the same time , to improve the total gate money a little . |
| 25 | The aim , therefore , was both to create new centres of national capitalism and to neutralize the capacity to obstruct this process of the three dominant powers of backward Europe — the Tsars , the Habsburg emperors , and the monarchs of Prussia ( the three were interlocked in the tripartite division of Poland ) . |
| 26 | Although the duke was later to acquire further interests of his own in Wales he never resumed the position of his brother 's leading representative there . |
| 27 | Although the duke was later to acquire further interests of his own in Wales he never resumed the position of his brother 's leading representative there . |
| 28 | His father was later to have another son by a second marriage . |
| 29 | The relatively uncontrolled use of herbicides in the 1950s and 1960s was temporarily to solve that problem . |
| 30 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |