Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His strategy was rather to canalize the enthusiasm of the diehards into party channels , to articulate their views , and to create unity from the sense of movement . |
| 2 | In practice the express remedies were actually in many cases fairly limited , so that the effect of such guarantees was rather to avoid the manufacturer 's liability than to provide an additional remedy . |
| 3 | Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry . |
| 4 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 5 | The submarine , which was eventually to provide the best means of delivering the torpedo , was still an infant ; only one or two curious submersible craft had been built and they had not yet affected naval thinking . |
| 6 | It must be conceded that the process had for its ‘ desired end ’ , the production of a being capable of experiencing what was eventually to become the enjoyment of life . |
| 7 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 8 | This was eventually to become the Victoria Dock . |
| 9 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 10 | Thus the civil war was powerfully to reinforce the centrifugal tendencies at work within the economy , and as Carr noted : |
| 11 | A major effect of this show of restraint was swiftly to reverse the recent downward trend of US-Israeli relations . |
| 12 | A year after the tragic loss of Ken Barrington , Keith Fletcher was dumped , the ‘ first sign of the irresolute thinking which was so to bedevil the decade ’ . |
| 13 | This was merely to recast the Hapsburg theory of Empire in liberal terms . |
| 14 | The cutting down of the scrub was merely to facilitate the minimal use by the goats — it was not for any wider purpose . |
| 15 | The probable origin of the trust in the commendatio made it important to continue to distinguish clearly between cases where it was intended to confer a benefit and cases where the intention was merely to ask the favour of safe-keeping . |
| 16 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 17 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 18 | However , there was less to satisfy the Protestants . |
| 19 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 20 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 21 | He personally favoured Perth as a national capital , but it was unhappily to become the scene of his assassination . |
| 22 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 23 | Another was greatly to minimize the impact on the educated and property-owning classes ( and hence often on the towns ) of the rudimentary conscription systems of the period . |
| 24 | The result of these cases was greatly to limit the right to picket . |
| 25 | Even I would n't realise until they opened their mouths — which was only to sing the malai national anthem . |
| 26 | If I was curious it was only to see the rest of the house . |
| 27 | And the effect of the war was only to heighten the contradictions and class conflict evident before it began . |
| 28 | To question him in detail and endeavour to reconcile his answers , to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy , was only to put the case out at compound interest of incomprehensibility . |
| 29 | However , the design was only to affect the outside ; inside things must remain the same . |
| 30 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |