Example sentences of "it was [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How amusing it was to watch this young man , he thought . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was to fill this need that John Tukey ( 1977 ) developed his exploratory statistics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was to counter such developments that the Reaganites and their allies in Congress resorted to a reconciliation strategy . |
| 13 | It was to take some time before a distinct and overall Sussex people could be forged by the strength of the rulers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was to exploit this slight sign of thaw that Eisenhower immediately afterwards invited Khrushchev to the United States . |
| 17 | It was to include those who were not within the Labour movement . |
| 18 | But she still did not realize how unnecessary it was to attend such events , and she continued to go to all the scheduled treats . |
| 19 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 20 | On the fist occasion , the effect was to build up worrying inflationary pressures ; on the second , it was to create more bankruptcies , higher unemployment , lower investment ( thus higher unit costs ) and , arguably — with a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise — higher , not lower , inflation . |
| 21 | In this instance it was to create another car access route to the Murrayfield Stadium for the visit of Billy Graham , the crowd gathering evangelist . |
| 22 | She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters . |
| 23 | Although the rebels had begun an air ferry with six planes they had at their disposal , it was clear that the rate of transfer thus achieved was much too slow and that the only hope of improving it was to obtain more planes from outside Spain . |
| 24 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 25 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 26 | ‘ It was to protect this operation that the press were not given a full briefing when the recent doping allegations were made . |
| 27 | Parreira , Gilmar , Calazans and many others maintain the championship has enormous potential if it was to run all year with matches just on Sundays , as in Italy . |
| 28 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |
| 29 | Zurich , in the Middle Ages , was Switzerland 's most important city , and it was to stay that way . |
| 30 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |