Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value ; Charles had confirmed that a friendly relationship existed between the great kingdom of the Franks and Rome , and that a pope could make demands upon the Frankish king in full expectation of support and response — perhaps even of obedience . |
| 2 | The work of Hume , Kant and Lessing was to be of especial significance for theology ; for while they undermined the earlier kind of rationalism by restricting the claims and powers of reason and pointing to the sheer variety and diversity of history , they raised equally sharp questions for theologians . |
| 3 | The projects were to be of real and lasting value , and able in the long run to pay for themselves . |
| 4 | The Report emphasized what had been the Council 's interpretation of its Charter and Statutes from the outset — if the Council 's degrees were to be of comparable standard to those awarded by universities then : |
| 5 | Moreover the towns were to be of diverse and balanced social composition : |
| 6 | The pressure of the streets was to be of decisive importance in the liberal revolution of 1820 , when it was organized by the secret societies . |
| 7 | The miniscule middle-class membership was insignificant as a group , but the survival of the publishing arm of the organization and the influence of the society on Arnold Leese were to be of crucial significance to the development of racial fascism in Britain . |
| 8 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 9 | For this reason , as we shall see , the architecture of Holyrood palace was to be of crucial political importance in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 10 | Quickly she outlined the plan , explaining that the party was to be for local children who were handicapped or disadvantaged in some way . |