Example sentences of "what was [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigation of the manuscripts and of the history of the transmission of the text of the Bible ( what was later to be called ‘ lower criticism ’ ) revealed a mass of variant readings , often with quite different senses . |
| 2 | Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo . |
| 3 | Is that to be defined by reference to the express terms of the contract or are they to be excluded in defining what was reasonably to be expected ? |
| 4 | The whole incident was triggered off when the local electricity board disconnected the power supply to the empty shop , without realising what was soon to be swimming in the melted ice ! |
| 5 | What was more to the point was that socialism in power meant economic conservatism in practice . |
| 6 | What was more to the point he was not , or so it appeared , prepared to invite Mr Tebbit to oppose it . |
| 7 | Carole was well ; what was more to the point she was here at the conference , ‘ a queen bee ’ of the local Tories — Chairman of the Forest of Arden Women 's Association . |
| 8 | Whoever had taken the decision to commit the party to armed insurrection in 1930 , what was now to be called in question was whether the party had any right at all to make such decisions for itself . |
| 9 | The proclamation of Lithuania 's independence took place late on March 11 as a result of voting in what was now to be known as the Supreme Council ( Taryba ; the Russian word soviet , literally meaning " council " , was dropped ) . |
| 10 | More deeply felt , more tendentiously extolled , and more verbose were the arguments in favour of what was really to be a new form of further education : the compulsory part-time day continuation school . |
| 11 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |