Example sentences of "was to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 2 | Charlie Wilson was to the fore again on the very next mission , another long haul to Sorau on April 11 . |
| 3 | Once again multimedia was to the fore as the computing industry tried to persuade punters that it 's the up and coming technology . |
| 4 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 5 | Its scientists were evacuated to Scotland on the outbreak of war , but German intelligence knew precisely how important Bawdsey still was to the defence of Britain . |
| 6 | One application was to the biscuit dough mixing process , the other to the weighing of packed biscuits . |
| 7 | If he had been wrong , it was to the honour of Greece . |
| 8 | It was to the credit of Philip IV that he laid the foundations for a dockyard at Rouen , while only a few years later in England , Edward II , whose father had built some galleys , was to possess a small squadron of ‘ royal ’ ships . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke told TUFL there were many voices in Scotland claiming that the Scottish economy had managed to avoid the recession and that was to the credit of the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , and his fellow ministers . |
| 10 | This was to the advantage of the young radicals ; like the leftists in the NILP , they were not hampered by tradition and did not have to placate their seniors before or after embracing heresy . |
| 11 | The theory was rounded off by the idea that the structure and content of the curriculum as practised in any school whatever , formal or free-form was to the advantage of those capable of indefinite linguistic and conceptual elaboration . |
| 12 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 13 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 14 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |
| 15 | Instead , for Bentham , there were only interests and , because the interests of the majority had to prevail , Himmelfarb noted : " The principle of the greatest happiness was as inimical to the idea of liberty as it was to the idea of rights . " |
| 16 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |
| 17 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 18 | Oh it 's always been confined to the Really it was to the school areas , you see ? |
| 19 | While he rose in stature , the Ward Development Company suffered crippling misfortunes , until now its back was to the wall , and Esther Ward was a desperate woman . |
| 20 | It was to the king that Holland turned during the great crisis of 1321–2 , when Lancaster rebelled against Edward . |
| 21 | He says that the real cost was to the public . |
| 22 | The three doors of this were really long mirrors , and it was to the wardrobe that Miss Rene went and , opening it , she lifted down a hanger from which hung a dress and coat . |
| 23 | These curves were concave to the origin : the nearer the curve was to the origin the higher the level of social welfare . |
| 24 | This was to the memory of a Cathedral Organist and his bride who were drowned when the motor vessel , Stella , hit the Casquet Rocks near Alderney as they went on honeymoon . |
| 25 | Just how important the station was to the life of the community can be gauged from the numerous stretches of approach road and land that were improved at the ratepayers ' expense — widened , often given pavements which look particularly incongruous leading from nowhere today , and lit with gas lamps . |
| 26 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 27 | Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water . |
| 28 | She was amazed at how little he wore and how impervious he was to the cold . |
| 29 | However , part-time teachers also make a very significant contribution and it was to the consideration of their needs that Haycocks II was addressed . |
| 30 | When in 1918 the party needed a social programme for negotiations with Lloyd George , it was to the work of the USRC that they turned ; in 1922 Griffith-Boscawen was able as Minister of Health to do some of the things he had attempted in 1912 ; much of Neville Chamberlain 's work as a reformer of the Poor Law was presaged by a USRC report of 1913 written by Hills . |