Example sentences of "but it was to " in BNC.
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1 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
2 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
3 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
4 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
5 | But it was to no avail — she was no nearer the McPhersons than when she 'd started . |
6 | But it was to be completely apart from the real functions of government , and courtiers were neither expected nor permitted to be politicians . |
7 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
8 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
9 | But it was to be Cardiff and not Oxford , railways and not mathematics . |
10 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |
11 | This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning . |
12 | In fact , the use of pesticides in cereal farming is largely limited to seed dressings and sometimes aphicides , but it was to the use of persistent organo-chlorine seed dressings that the decline in birds of prey in the late 1950s and early 1960s was convincingly attributed . |
13 | ‘ Why ? ’ he said , but it was to himself or another power , not to her . |
14 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
15 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
16 | But it was to Kirk Douglas 's detriment that he was considered by the director to be a temperamental actor whom he did n't want to have to cope with on the set . |
17 | But it was to be a cruel illusion . |
18 | There were other huts visible as outlines in the mist of early afternoon , but it was to the hut with the figure ‘ 2 ’ painted in yellow on the doorway that they were led . |
19 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
20 | Perhaps she really did little more than lend her name , but it was to her at any rate that Queen Victoria 's secretary wrote with royal support for her venture ( the Queen had also supported the Victoria Press , named after her ) . |
21 | But it was to be another 20 years before the changes had marked effect . |
22 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
23 | The suspension was initially to be rescinded within four months , but it was to be renewed up to 1821 . |
24 | But it was to a totally different kind of person to whom he confessed his total loneliness . |
25 | Not only was the state 's liability for compensation limited , but it was to be paid only if and when the owner of land suffered from planning restrictions . |
26 | But it was to this very building that he departed each morning , from an office much like this that he returned each night . |
27 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |