Example sentences of "[was/were] later [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The items taken were later given a conservative value of £1,420 by an auctioneer . |
| 2 | The Temptations of St Antony were later to prove a rich theme for European painters . |
| 3 | This appeared in Scrutiny , and attracted some notice , not least from Ayer himself , with whom I was later to form a warm friendship . |
| 4 | Coughlin says in his book Hostage that Spiro was later given a new identity by the CIA and lived in California . |
| 5 | Bridge had joined the firm as an assistant solicitor and was later made a salaried partner with a view to and shortly before his becoming a full capital ( equity ) partner . |
| 6 | He was later to become a top BBC foreign correspondent , newsreader and co-presenter of Radio 4 's Today . |
| 7 | This agitation is worth mentioning at this point , both because it perfectly exemplified the continuing strengths of liberal pacifism , and because its leader and organizer , E. D. Morel , was later to play a key role in sustaining British pacifism after the outbreak of war in 1914 . |
| 8 | One was Alan Hayling , who was later to play a central role in the story of News on Sunday . |
| 9 | It was a decision that was later to play a large role in their downfall . |
| 10 | The other members of the committee were : ( whose son , Waldo , was later to have a distinguished career with the BBC ) . |
| 11 | One of Wilson 's associates was a gentleman who was later to attain a high degree of publicity and notoriety , namely Joseph Kagan . |
| 12 | ( The concept of invariance was definitely the " in " subject at the time and it was later to provide a central idea in the theory of relativity . ) |