Example sentences of "[adv] was [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On another day we might have had four or five tries in the second half , but it just was n't to be , ’ said London coach Tony Jorden . |
| 2 | The temperature outside was down to nearly zero . |
| 3 | And even in those pre-inflation days the price two years later was up to 2,500 guineas . |
| 4 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 5 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 6 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | But the subtext of Lupus 's letter was disappointment at Charles 's withholding of St-Josse , and so the veiled reference here was evidently to Odulf . |
| 8 | On Oct. 14 ( when no threshold applied ) the turnout nationwide was down to 27.4 per cent . |
| 9 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 10 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 11 | This arts and exhibition centre was formerly a hundred-year-old majolica factory and until recently was home to the Musée de l'Affiche . |
| 12 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 13 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |