Example sentences of "was to [be] [vb pp] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remained silent , unused as it was to being asked for its opinions . |
| 2 | But from the moment that the electorate realised it was to be stripped of its Deutschemark , a symbol of nationhood , Germans began to wonder how much else had been given away . |
| 3 | His whole system was to be tested to its limits when a war with France began in 1793 which lasted , with only brief intermission , for more than twenty years . |
| 4 | It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition ! |
| 5 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |
| 6 | In view of the absence of any definition of ‘ domicile ’ in the Act of 1988 , the Commission considered that , if the term was to be construed in its traditional sense , it must be assimilated to nationality . |