Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to be a real family Christmas , and Tina was hard at work in the kitchen with Hilda van Meer . |
| 2 | Some of them added that they thought the TBC paid too little attention to the speeches of politicians : this was to be a frequent complaint . |
| 3 | This was to be a regional security organisation based on the GCC , together with a Western military input or participation . |
| 4 | This was to be a temporary measure while further preparations were made for the erection of an Anderson Clyde ‘ Giant Colossus ’ gantry type crane which would work to both ship and vehicle . |
| 5 | This was to be a great success for him , being the first ever history of an English county . |
| 6 | Their agreement was that this was to be a pre-supper drink with Colin and Yvonne , the limit both of time and alcohol consumption clearly understood between her and Norman before they left home . |
| 7 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ I understood this was to be a private meeting . ’ |
| 9 | This was to be a tip-and-run raid , penetrating only a short distance into the country . |
| 10 | The dominant benefit is the means-tested income support replacing supplementary benefit ( formerly national assistance ) in April 1988 , whereas under the Beveridge Plan this was to be a minor benefit providing a safety net for those not otherwise covered . |
| 11 | This was to be a common reaction to Selina as her career gathered pace . |
| 12 | Despite this bad start , this was to be the only meeting the unit was to have with Müncheberg 's Messerschmitts , for their time in Sicily was almost at an end . |
| 13 | The Whigs had recovered somewhat by 1705 , giving the Tories a good run for their money , and they actually won the Election in 1708 , although this was to be the only General Election they were to win under Anne . |
| 14 | This was to be the legal basis for the armed detachments of workers who were supposed to confiscate surplus grain and the hoards of speculators . |
| 15 | A significant proportion of local notables joined the popular revolution in order to master anarchy : this was to be the classic pattern of revolution in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | This was to be the divisional point . |
| 17 | This was to be the major stumbling block in difficult and often angry negotiations , in which Stewart Mason played a key part — anxious to avoid a precedent for unclassified degrees in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Surely this was to be the winning throw , but , oh disaster , gloom and stress , surely it was n't . |
| 19 | Henceforth , and unlike the earlier period , this was to be the dominant aspect of the rite . |
| 20 | With eight editions published by 1964 , this was to be the main connection linking Nesta Webster to the development of the fascist conspiracy theory . |
| 21 | In more ways than one 1979 was to be a momentous year for me . |
| 22 | But the establishment of the bloc system in the late 1940s was to be a sad end to visions of the New World — Western or Eastern — restoring the balance of the Old . |
| 23 | Oct. 3 was to be a national holiday . |
| 24 | If the help available was to be a free good then , in the USA , there would be a considerable amount of stigma attached to recipients of it . |