Example sentences of "it was [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was principally to let us say goodbye to each other in peace , said Gay . |
| 2 | ( In fact Henley 's soup kitchen for poor children was still in service although it was soon to close ) . |
| 3 | Yet the steady accumulation of territories and the regional power which accompanied it was soon to render Armagnac , like Foix-Béarn , one of the most independent of noble houses , especially during the crises of the mid fourteenth century . |
| 4 | A large Hadrianic group from the macellum includes examples of all the forms in a great variety of detail , but the quantity is about equal to that of the hard grey wares it was soon to replace . |
| 5 | If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading , then it was soon to become even more so . |
| 6 | But it was soon to become apparent . |
| 7 | Although the promise of a ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ secured a victory for Lloyd George and his coalition government in 1918 , it was soon to find its promises increasingly hard to fulfil as the post-war boom petered out and Britain moved into the years of the Slump . |
| 8 | Last night I visited the Queen Mary and Westfield college in the Mile End road and I was told that it was soon to have a level of computers of almost one work station for every six students . |
| 9 | It was rather to identify some of the concrete problems which would have to be faced in any such exercise . |
| 10 | If PCs were networked , it was normally to share expensive resources , such as printers or mass storage . |
| 11 | The devils urged that she should kill herself and be damned with them in Hell , and it was evidently to contain her attempts at suicide that she was ‘ bound and kept with strength day and night ’ ; even then she ‘ rived the skin on her body against her heart with her nails most spitefully ’ . |
| 12 | She knew it was mostly to do with Feargal 's behaviour , and her own shaming enjoyment of it . |
| 13 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |
| 14 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 15 | It was n't to do with change . ’ |
| 16 | It was n't to do with the women , they still resembled their ancestors well enough . |
| 17 | The contact was more than either of them could bear , and it was n't to do with the heat . |
| 18 | If it was n't to blow up into a first-class row , she 'd have to bargain . |
| 19 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 20 | And I assure you it was n't to wipe your nose , it was to bring home any surplus cakes , that were left on the table . |
| 21 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So why , ’ she fired hotly , ‘ if it was n't to prove how devastatingly attractive to women you are , have you come here ? ’ |
| 23 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 24 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 25 | It was n't to marry Troy , it was to break off my relationship with him . |
| 26 | It was n't to get rich . |
| 27 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 28 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 29 | However , it was not to last . |
| 30 | Whatever may have prompted Benjamin and Elizabeth to pay this visit to Walworth — a chance of staying with some of the Parkes family , perhaps ? — it was not to last long . |