Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrust of German research was eventually to culminate in a position summarised by Rudolf Bultmann of the University of Marburg , one of the most important , most famous and most esteemed of twentieth-century biblical commentators : |
| 2 | He said this very seriously and with a hint of the single-mindedness and dedication he was eventually to show in realising this ambition . |
| 3 | As Jesus insisted in Luke 24:47 , it was all to begin in Jerusalem : hence the emphasis on Jerusalem as the place where the Pentecostal gift arrived . |
| 4 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 5 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 6 | Charles Lloyd had returned to Lime Street by September , but his presence was now more clearly a burden than a pleasure , and his mental instability was soon to result in what Coleridge bitterly recollected as a ‘ mad quarrel ’ and in vindictive ingratitude . |
| 7 | Waugh might have agreed even with the complaint about surface faults , which he was shortly to concede in a new preface and expunge by revision . |
| 8 | ‘ The original plan was just to get in there , and that was suicide . |
| 9 | The grammar school boy did n't have Neville 's sophistication , Greer 's polemic talents , or Widgery 's politics , but he had a grasp of the new generation picking up the paper , and , as he was conclusively to demonstrate in the 1970s , he had a great talent for making money , a loyalty to his friends — and talent for paying bills , eventually . |
| 10 | Er I 'm often asked what it was like to live in those eventful days and as Colonel just said well , you used to make an awful lot of noise . |
| 11 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 12 | Can you can you give me some idea of erm w what it was like to start in the quarry as an apprentice ? |
| 13 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 14 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 15 | Many of the arguments that he was later to use in his campaign against integration of French forces in NATO were first rehearsed in speeches and press conferences between 1949 and 1954 : for example , the unacceptability of a command structure that placed French troops and assets under non-French control ; or the inherent unreliability of the American nuclear umbrella , once the USSR had acquired the bomb . |
| 16 | But there was a consolation prize : Wolfgang 's little Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne — a tale of thwarted love put right by the intervention of a sorcerer — was performed privately at the home of Dr Mesmer , the celebrated inventor of magnetic mesmerism ( which Mozart was later to parody in Così fan tutte ) . |
| 17 | To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 18 | An increased ceiling was also to apply in respect of rebates for the community charge ( poll tax ) which was being introduced in England and Wales from April 1 , 1990 , to replace domestic rates [ see below ] . |
| 19 | In effect , it was the mass application of a tactic Franco was frequently to apply in the political arena : divide and rule . |
| 20 | He was here to soak in the atmosphere of the place . |
| 21 | As this first meeting went on , the issue which was increasingly to feature in the review was raised : performance in public examinations . |
| 22 | It was there to see in the surprise and the pain . |
| 23 | If the Lebanese Forces were seriously gunning for him , there was nowhere to hide in any case . |
| 24 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 25 | Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |