Example sentences of "that was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 2 | Under Sole 's command Scotland won 14 times , and when he took over from Finlay Calder as captain in 1989 he continued a sequence that was to lead to another record : 13 successive victories at Murrayfield . |
| 3 | The amount of ocean heat that was lost to the atmosphere during the Widdell polenier events in the mid nineteen seventies was absolutely enormous . |
| 4 | Their rich , warm colour was a powerful reminder of a world that was lost to us and I suddenly felt sure we would see it again . |
| 5 | The Northern Ireland BBC fought back with a ferocity that was frightening to anyone with theories about impartiality by state-owned broadcasting bodies . |
| 6 | What we think of as the music we used to listen to , is n't necessarily the music that was played to us . |
| 7 | Ruane took a key from his pocket that was fastened to his waist belt by a fine chain . |
| 8 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ he said , adding in a tone that was intended to be gentle , but came out wheedling , ‘ Do you find me repulsive ? ’ |
| 10 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 11 | Holly saw the bright red band that was sewn to the upper arm of his tunic , the red diamond on his chest . |
| 12 | She , too , was unhappy about the play — to say nothing about the fact that all too few people carne to see her in her dressing room , a circumstance that was startling to her , even though she did n't react in the way that Ken himself would have done . |
| 13 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 14 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |
| 15 | Charles and ken ( 1986 ) found that food consumption differed significantly between lone-mother and two-parent families in a way that was related to the presence of male partner . |
| 16 | However , any subjective concept of time that was related to consciousness or the ability to perform measurements would come to an end . |
| 17 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 18 | At the risk of oversimplifying , the new style of labour relations were designed to overcome a high turnover of skilled workers , intense industrial conflict and a lack of motivation and commitment that was said to be the cause of Japan 's reputation as a producer of shoddy goods . |
| 19 | Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be . |
| 20 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 21 | My husband to Tunis , our son to Saudi Arabia , the girls to London and I turned my face toward Abu Dhabi and the pains of collecting money that was owed to our business . |
| 22 | It also furnished them with a curriculum in both secondary modern and grammar schools that was geared to national cultural demands and criteria of scholastic excellence . |
| 23 | The strand of the overall Whitehouse philosophy that was referred to above , and which , perhaps , is only implicitly suggested by the two examples discussed , is the particularly vulnerable position which , she feels , young people occupy , especially with regard to the pernicious influences of the mass media . |
| 24 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 25 | Originally titled ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion Featuring A Choice Collection Of Tomes , Songs , Odes And Anthems From The Most Eminent Authors In The United States ’ , this is the record that was struggling to be heard inside the more studio-constricted ‘ Money Maker ’ . |
| 26 | I 've got nothing against keyboards , in fact I love keyboard music , but if you want to play guitar you should buy a guitar that was made to be played like a guitar . |
| 27 | He played a part that was made to measure , a scarf-wearing , nose-blowing hypochondriac who Dr Jacques was to put firmly in his place . |
| 28 | One , one point that was made to me is , is it might be , it might be too late for this , but it might be helpful for some staff from residential establishments to actually get to understand what official visits are as well . |
| 29 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 30 | On the other hand , he regarded Khrushchev 's initiatives in Berlin and , later , in Cuba as the final flings of a conflict that was drawing to a close . |