Example sentences of "it was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he turned to God it was to someone other : he was surrendering to ‘ something outside oneself ’ . |
| 2 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |
| 3 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 4 | It was to her own surprise that Muriel Box , the director of 14 modest budget feature films between 1951 and 1964 , found herself an inspiration and a role model for a new generation of women film-makers , critics and students . |
| 5 | He got out of here , though it was to the colours . |
| 6 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 7 | It was to be a memorable trip in so many different ways . |
| 8 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 9 | It was to be topical and polemical , and among other things a direct challenge to Fathers and Children . |
| 10 | In essence , though , it was to be ‘ a play about modern Europe and the peace we 're living in ’ . |
| 11 | Thus the Protestants preserved their future , although it was to be one which mimicked , in smaller fashion , the tragedy of Lebanon . |
| 12 | Latterly it was to a flat in Eaton Square where the army of friends , constantly replenished , continued to gather . |
| 13 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 14 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 15 | It was to be Sex . |
| 16 | Of these , the first , Type 1 , was the most important ; it was to be a large multi-engine landplane capable of flying from London to New York non-stop . |
| 17 | It was to be a four-engine aircraft , possibly with gas turbines , with a range of 2,750 miles . |
| 18 | It was to be based on the British proposals in Chicago . |
| 19 | for Maxse , Bridgeman , and the great majority of Conservatives between 1906 and 1910 , the party , if it was to be popular , needed to embrace tariff reform and the gamut of policies with which it was linked , such as social reform and land reform . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was to be the happiest year of his career — the year when BRM finally came good and won the world championship with Graham Hill . |
| 23 | It was to be built and ready for traffic by 0030 hours the following morning . |
| 24 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 25 | It was to this great tradition , though as a self-confessedly very junior follower , that Lewis quite easily and naturally belonged . |
| 26 | ‘ It was to be expected , you know . |
| 27 | Nearly 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface is covered by ice , which remains as terra incognita to climatologists as it was to 17th-century explorers . |
| 28 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 29 | My impression was that since it was to be held in London , Angela was doing the work , with a good deal of help from colleagues at Yeo Davis . |
| 30 | 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 . |