Example sentences of "it [was/were] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cliff already has an aid climb , The Lid , which , if it were to go free would be very hard indeed . |
| 2 | This is the haunt of the Natterjack toad , a protected and endangered species with the delightful and befitting name of Bufo Calamita — certainly it would be a calamity if it were to become extinct . |
| 3 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 4 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 5 | It was to resist this wave of caesarism that Jovellanos pressed for the summoning of a general Cortes which would represent the nation against the generals . |
| 6 | How amusing it was to watch this young man , he thought . |
| 7 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 8 | It was to comprise five ECJ and three EFTA judges . |
| 9 | It was to repel these undesirable side-effects of the open-door policy that the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign was started in the winter of 1983 . |
| 10 | Disunity in Congress also compelled the administration to look for allies if it was to risk military involvement . |
| 11 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 12 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 13 | The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors . |
| 14 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 15 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 16 | It was to fill this need that John Tukey ( 1977 ) developed his exploratory statistics . |
| 17 | The Finance Ministry announced on Oct. 8 that it was to punish all four by banning them from trading in equities for a period of one month . |
| 18 | Yet the contradiction as seen by Castells was that capital , if it was to remain profitable , could not afford to provide such facilities itself . |
| 19 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 20 | Here , the English Tourist Board and the local authority decided the magnificent fifteenth-century castle , if it was to remain intact and open to the public , would not find a purchaser without permission for development . |
| 21 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 22 | It was to counter such developments that the Reaganites and their allies in Congress resorted to a reconciliation strategy . |
| 23 | How refreshing it was to see ordinary , normal-looking dogs after all the fuss and pomposity of the so-called pedigree dogs at Crufts . |
| 24 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 25 | It was to take eight years to produce the entire series . |
| 26 | It was to take some time before a distinct and overall Sussex people could be forged by the strength of the rulers . |
| 27 | Li Yuan watched the Marshal while he talked , barely referring to the folder in his lap , unless it was to take some diagram from it and hand it to Tolonen . |
| 28 | It was to take several years and unexpected pressures before general progress in this direction was achieved , but it is important to remember that there were views being canvassed in the CNAA and more widely that pointed towards a possible further ‘ collective resolution ’ . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was to exploit this slight sign of thaw that Eisenhower immediately afterwards invited Khrushchev to the United States . |
| 30 | Although the Council was to have only six members , it was to receive 17 votes . |