Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [was/were] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mrs Thatcher 's election to Party Leader in 1975 was to be immensely significant in the context of post-war politics : the tradition of consensual , one-nation government ( which had dominated Conservative governments since 1951 ) was , if not to disappear , to become far less dominant . |
| 32 | His first academic appointment in 1902 was to the metallurgy department of King 's College , London . |
| 33 | In addition , further renewal of MFN status in 1992 was to be dependent on China meeting stringent conditions concerned with ( i ) improving human rights ; ( ii ) ending the export of goods produced in prison labour camps ; and ( iii ) controlling the sale of ballistic missiles to the Middle East . |
| 34 | Of his collaborative works with Herbert , Marble Hill and the White Lodge are classic examples of the first-generation Anglo-Palladian villa , of which the former in particular was to be a highly influential model amongst later designers ; while the bridge at Wilton is one of the most perfect and most memorably inventive of all Anglo-Palladian images , and was to be faithfully copied on four occasions — at Stowe ( by 1742 ) , Prior Park , Bath ( 1756 ) , Hagley ( by 1764 ) , and Amesbury ( 1777 ) . |
| 35 | Those coal heavers , weavers , sailors , labourers and others of the lower orders who took to the streets in 1768 were to a large extent caught up in a political moment which coincided with longer-running economic grievances . |
| 36 | Some local societies which had previously formed branches of that organisation may have survived as benefit clubs but nothing of substance is known about these , nor about such non-affiliated organisations as the Liverpool based British Mariner 's Association which in 1857 was to be found at 6 , Columbian Buildings at that port . |
| 37 | The minimum levels for Key Stages 1 to 4 were to be , respectively , levels 1,2,3 and 4 . |
| 38 | The reduced deficit was to be achieved by ( i ) a 13.2 per cent reduction in investment spending ( although unused investment allocations for 1988 were to be carried over into 1989 ; and ( ii ) the raising of direct and indirect taxes by 29.7 per cent and 23.3 per cent respectively ( although this was largely a reflection of the fact that actual tax yields in 1988 exceeded 1988 budget projections by some 20 per cent ) . |