Example sentences of "was to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presence in and with the community was to them the sign of the kingdom of God on earth . |
| 2 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 3 | His study , with its big untidy desk strewn with folders of notes and the proofs of a book he was correcting , was to him the most congenial room in the house . |
| 4 | Northam was to her the very image of unfertile ground , and yet other people lived there and stayed there when they had money in the bank and legs to walk away on . |
| 5 | Thomas Gunson , of Middlesex , a glass seller , was to he the treasurer or receiver — advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen . |