Example sentences of "[Wh det] it was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The autocracy undertook to guarantee full civil liberty , to give major legislative powers to the promised Assembly ( the State Duma ) , and to broaden greatly the franchise on which it was to be based . |
| 2 | If economic reform was the ‘ key to all our problems ’ at the outset of Gorbachev 's administration and political reform increasingly the means by which it was to be accomplished , the ultimate objective remained the achievement of a form of socialism which advanced decisively on those that had preceded it . |
| 3 | It was as if only she was not yet to be told which it was to be . |
| 4 | The demand management policies by which it was to be achieved seemed to offer a progressive alternative to socialism by providing the economic background which would allow measures of social betterment to be carried out without socialist control of the economy . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs obtained an injunction to restrain the defendants notwithstanding that the product in question ( a swizzle stick embossed with the name of the ship upon which it was to be used ) was available to anyone who happened to take a cruise on that ship . |
| 6 | In the years after the defeat of 1935 the Party formulated many of the policies on which it was to be returned in 1945 . |
| 7 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 8 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 9 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |
| 10 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 11 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 12 | Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … . |
| 13 | Knowing what it was to be in a universe . |
| 14 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 15 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 16 | She nurtured an artistic , creative ego and vision according to the ready models of what it was to be a ‘ Great Artist ’ . |
| 17 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 18 | And you want to know what it was like being fêted by the Stones and Led Zep , and how in ‘ 61 Bob Dylan got his first Greenwich Village pro gig with John Lee ( and was apparently pissed off because the man from the New York Times was far more interested in rapping with the bluesman ) , but he just says it was nice to be able to put young Bob on the bandstand . |
| 19 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 20 | Anne Scott wrote her first piece — on contraception — and a woman whom Rowbotham had met wrote a description of what it was like being an unmarried mother . |
| 21 | A description of what it was like being a female secretary in a male-dominated office received much attention , and much fury and hilarity when it was realized that the office being described was that of the New Left Review . |