Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This overreaction was not to last , but , while it was still strong upon Anna , while she briefly favoured neat cardigans and regular library hours and institutional meals , she chanced upon Peter Bouverie . |
| 2 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 3 | The er , the very important experiences of this story were never to be received into his work . |
| 4 | This knitting was then to be washed and thoroughly steam pressed . |
| 5 | The political and social context and the popular mood seemed to demand an upbeat cinema but this cinema was not to be a cinema of fantasy or make-believe but rather it was a cinema created in the image of its audiences . |
| 6 | In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed . |
| 7 | The aim of this study was therefore to further explore the potential relation between serum gastrin and pepsinogen-I and -II concentrations and H pylori infection in a large number of H pylori positive and H pylori negative , subjects without symptoms and to compare the results with those in patients with duodenal ulcers . |
| 8 | This committee was still to report when the Council in 1958 felt it necessary to reiterate its interest in a common market . |
| 9 | Obviously this flexibility was frequently to the client 's advantage , but it was also open to abuse . |
| 10 | The aim of this Council was putatively to ‘ represent the opinions , ideas and experience of the whole country to the broadcasting authorities ’ . |
| 11 | This ambiguity was much to the taste of men whose drive was probably homosexual . |
| 12 | The Tominahs and even her uncle seemed to think this behaviour was quite to be expected on an occasion such as this , with so much soul energy flying around . |
| 13 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 14 | Unbelievably , our boats were still being laid up during the winter months but with a more professional approach being adopted from topside , this policy was soon to be abandoned . |
| 15 | This word was also to be read aloud , and the time taken to start pronouncing it was recorded . |
| 16 | This bill was subsequently to be discussed by the federal Parliament and , if enacted , would be valid until the end of 1996 . |
| 17 | This threat was never to be fulfilled , for Godfred was conveniently murdered , and his successor and nephew , Hemming , made peace with the Franks . |
| 18 | And this press was there to be read because under a range of pressures from open repression to financial disadvantage some men took initiatives to use the technology for their own as opposed to the dominant social purposes . |
| 19 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |