Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 This was to be the divisional point .
6 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 .
7 Surely this was to be the winning throw , but , oh disaster , gloom and stress , surely it was n't .
8 Henceforth , and unlike the earlier period , this was to be the dominant aspect of the rite .
9 With eight editions published by 1964 , this was to be the main connection linking Nesta Webster to the development of the fascist conspiracy theory .
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