Example sentences of "[adv] it was [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 2 | If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man . |
| 3 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 4 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 5 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 6 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 7 | Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured . |
| 8 | The most critical part of the whole job was planning exactly what needed to be done , how it was to be done and when . |
| 9 | We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done . |
| 10 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
| 11 | He had no intention of changing his way of life , but how it was to be sustained now he had no idea . |
| 12 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
| 13 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 14 | This political imbalance of North and South remained imperfectly corrected till 1832 — indeed it was to be made worse by the Tudor establishment of boroughs in the Crown duchy of Cornwall in the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | Instead it was to be tailed and kept under observation , until the arrival of Curtis and his squad . |
| 16 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 17 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 18 | The completed upholstery was finished at the point where it was to be fixed in the coach . |
| 19 | A decision to pipe crude oil from the B.P. Forties Field in the North Sea to a new terminal at Hound Point from where it was to be shipped outwards , raised doubts about safety of navigation in the River Forth . |
| 20 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 21 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |