Example sentences of "[adv] was to " in BNC.
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1 | Presumably he had become as immune to disgust as he obviously was to the sweet-sour smell of his mortuary . |
2 | To do so was to court death and to surrender , not only to the hurricane , but to surrender a nation , however small , into the hands of killers . |
3 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
4 | To think so was to be conned by the art dealers . |
5 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
6 | The firm and repeated instruction of the strike organisers was that passive resistance alone was to be used . |
7 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
8 | Of course she recognized the author to whom I referred as Ivy Compton-Burnett , who was not then ( 1948 ) so extensively known as she soon was to be . |
9 | Content as she generally was to be alone , this place had a distinctly solitary feel to it , and she 'd be more secure in Kelly 's extrovert company . |
10 | A pay bed was , of course , a bed which could be purchased within an NHS hospital and normally was to be found in the so-called private wards of these hospitals . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
13 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
14 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |
15 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
16 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
17 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
18 | All that was left to her now was to not let him know just how much he had hurt her . |
19 | The last thing she needed right now was to be alone with her thoughts . |
20 | All he wanted , all he hoped for now was to be left alone to come to terms with his plight . |
21 | The the object of the operation really was to obviously apprehend er because at that time we believed that he was er a danger to the public and other people . |
22 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
23 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |
24 | Well was to be Chairman , was to be Vice Chair now under these this new . |
25 | At the new master 's decree , today was to be a day of merrymaking : workers from his nearby shoe factory had been specially brought in by charabanc , and a syndicate of local industrialists had also gathered for the festivities . |
26 | Today was to be his last serious gallop before Tokyo . |
27 | Here was to be no outside elements , no objects or empirical fact or emotion ; it was a world of the mind , stark , pure , austere and coldly beautiful . |
28 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
29 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
30 | Opposition to the regulation considered here was to be expected from property owners … since it intruded on their interests not only directly , but also indirectly through the additional taxation necessary to finance its implementation . |