Example sentences of "to [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yoshida 's attitude to communism was pragmatic : while he disliked communism as an ideology , it was necessary to deal with the world that existed . |
| 2 | While the idea of the two-stage revolution : liberation first , communism later : could be described as primitive Leninism , it may be seen that Ho 's approach to Communism was also two-track : town and country : not necessarily in that order : and his Revolutionary Youth League also functioned on two levels : the mass nationalist party and the inner core of Tam Tam Xa hotheads who were to be the nucleus of a future communist party . |
| 3 | of ideological progression , maybe he thought that , that , that erm the only , ultimately the only way to capitalis er to communism was through capitalism and he needs to establish a period of capitalism first . |
| 4 | Richard Baxter 's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled . |
| 5 | This diverse group of teachers at all levels of education from primary to university was unusual in one particular way : all its members tried their best to be open . |
| 6 | As Table 3.5 shows , the proportion of West Indian children that passed one or more A levels was at least six times lower than that of other children , while the proportion that went on to university was three times lower . |
| 7 | Asian children performed just as well as other children in the six local education authorities but their admission rate to university was almost half of the corresponding figure for school leavers in all the state schools in England . |
| 8 | For the parson the whole point of going to university was to become a minister of God . |
| 9 | Faith , for Constantine , was a political matter ; and any faith conducive to unity was treated with forbearance . |
| 10 | From here to rebirth was just a single step … |
| 11 | Its ratio of costs to income was a miserly 40% last year , good even for a thrift ; most banks would be proud of a figure below 60% . |
| 12 | The man had been trained in the 1950s when the ‘ tactile ’ approach to teaching was favoured . |
| 13 | Consistency among teachers : Pupils performed better when the approach to teaching was consistent . |
| 14 | His approach to teaching was irrevocably pragmatic , reminiscent rather of that tradition of apprenticeship , which had dominated art until the 19th century , rather than of the semi-academicised inculcation of self-expression , which had prevailed ever since . |
| 15 | Both the activities of local antislavery associations and public meetings engendered petitions and the recurrent presentation of large numbers of them to parliament was a striking feature of antislavery history . |
| 16 | The mission to invite Edward to come to parliament was prompted by Melton 's protest against condemning the king unheard and unseen ; the sermons of Orleton , Stratford and finally of Reynolds were not the spontaneous initiatives of these prelates , but clearly part of an opportunist programme coordinated by Mortimer and his allies . |
| 17 | Drummond also took with him several other letters of recommendation , but as Mrs. Mary pointed out , his chief claim to advancement was that |
| 18 | In these measurements , the mean time from wound to excision was 28s , which should be sufficient for passage of a hydraulic signal . |
| 19 | It was plain from the summing-up and the interview notes that the reason for the change of mind from denial to admission was the wish to prevent members of his family being interviewed , charged with or suspected of a crime which he was admitting . |
| 20 | Weber 's approach to inequality was to present a range of descriptive categories that could be used to describe it in any given society . |
| 21 | The northern area from Rijeka to Zadar was incorporated into the military frontier , which was under the control of the Habsburgs . |
| 22 | The former 's adherence to conservatism was tempered by an easy and agreeable manner that disarmed public , politicians and the press alike . |
| 23 | The regime 's tendency to conservatism was all the more serious because it coincided with huge socio-economic upheavals associated with modernization and the coming to maturity of the postwar baby boom . |
| 24 | In the case of the white boy , we can rule out the possibility of " mother-tongue " interference because his first exposure to Creole was almost certainly rather late in life and too late to " interfere " with his acquisition of LE . |
| 25 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 26 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 27 | From lap one the one to watch was Matt Jackson in Stiletto . |
| 28 | In other departments the approach to assessment was deliberately kept as informal and flexible as possible , as in the following extended quotation from the Head of Drama at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ , which illustrates that this type of apparent informality can be just as thorough and searching , if not more so , than many supposedly more objective methods : |
| 29 | Accordingly , it must follow on the facts that the claim to privilege was not made out . |
| 30 | Experimental evidence for chaos based on the mode-splitting instability was first obtained by Casperson in 1978 { 10 } : the route to chaos was not studied in detail , except that period-two was observed . |