Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Capellans , indulgent as ever , had trusted them in ours until it became obvious the same hideous trick was about to be played again . |
| 2 | Prelates of a less combative temperament were still to be found organizing defences or , like Gynewell of Lincoln , directly arming the clergy of their dioceses . |
| 3 | Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things . |
| 4 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 5 | In 1826 , when the members of the British Factory were worried by reports that a daily newspaper was about to be published in Funchal , they decided to set up a find for the protection of any British subject attacked by the newspaper . |
| 6 | His potential for convincing , intense , even poetic realism was not to be conveyed for some time . |
| 7 | a In Gardynik , it was held , dismissing an appeal by the defendant , that sexual assault was not to be equated with the former offence of indecent assault , with its highly subjective moral overtones . |
| 8 | The latter could be reached by a majority vote among the nine : unanimity in the High Authority was not to be necessary . |
| 9 | After some time one became aware that members of a quite different clan were also to be found scattered in little clusters throughout the open-plan living area . |
| 10 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |
| 11 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 12 | At once Matthew relaxed , his eyes creasing in a smile as he wondered what the old man was up to . |
| 13 | From time to time Mr Salmon used to read to me from his morning paper , but as he could never find a mention of the Royal Fusiliers I did n't discover what the old man was up to . |
| 14 | The king 's body , together with a number of priceless gold and bejewelled kerises attached to the scarlet wrappings , was handed into the grotto , but just as the carved wooden cover was about to be hammered into place behind it , Lorne announced that it was imperative to film the door being closed from the inside . |
| 15 | The main elements of an editorial system were still to be tackled . |
| 16 | Her foul-mouthed old mother was also to be seen at the school ‘ meetings ’ , shouting about the bottoms , while children hurled abuse and insult and accusations at one another . |
| 17 | The Declaration recognized that such radical economic readjustment policies in several of the countries present had already entailed widespread " sacrifice " and that this had to end if true social justice were ever to be achieved . |
| 18 | The architectural solution was ultimately to be found and perfected in Italy in the sixteenth century , but the contributions of English and French experience to these discoveries was not negligible . |
| 19 | As appears from his writing , the British deaf scene was not to his liking . |
| 20 | The economic slump was nowhere to be seen , but hairline recession was another thing . |
| 21 | Also , ‘ for the first time since 1906 union funds were exposed to the threat of damages claims if official support was even to action which was no longer immune ’ . |
| 22 | Yet the limits of his moral perception were not to be enlarged . |
| 23 | Many years later when another scientific institution was founded in Britain , the British Association for the Advancement of Science , a similar refrain was still to be heard . |
| 24 | Typical Catholicism was n't to be found in St Peter 's , or Chartres , but in some mean , low-roofed parish church , where hideous plaster saints simpered along the wall , and the bored congregation , pressed perspiration tight into the pews , rested their fat arses on the seats , rattled their beads , fumbled for their smallest change , and scolded their children . |
| 25 | But the Roman evening was not to be disposed of in quite the way they had imagined , with an early night because they were tired after the journey . |
| 26 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 27 | By early 1950 , following renewed cuts , the annual rate was down to around $170 million . |
| 28 | The author reveals that this almighty blunder was down to Quisling who had told German intelligence that the battery would not fire without direct cabinet orders . |
| 29 | A joint commission was also to be established to discuss with the United States government the proposal in June by President George Bush that the Americas be made a free-trade zone [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 30 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |