Example sentences of "[adj] this [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1934 this was to be combined with the anti-semitic obsession of both ultra-conservative reactionary fascism and racial nationalist traditions in the BUF , despite the fact that it was expressed in slightly less virulent form and appeared to have more social roots . |
| 2 | However strange this was to us , it was genuinely moving to the Chinese audience , and Comrade Chang , the cadre , sitting on my left , was in tears at the end of a sequence mourning the death of Chou . |
| 3 | All this is to be found even in the lower classes . |
| 4 | The value in all this is to better the lives of ordinary people . |
| 5 | SERAFIN : You 've no idea how deeply helpful all this is to me in a private capacity . |
| 6 | At the same time , the curriculum through which all this was to be achieved remained remarkably unexplored and neglected ; and in many respects this in itself was a comment on the nature of the reformers ' aims and aspirations . |
| 7 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |
| 8 | Perhaps , she thought , that was what all this was to him . |
| 9 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |
| 10 | ‘ I am extremely concerned this is to be based on the Government 's own estimate of how much each council should spend the Standard Spending Assessment . |
| 11 | ‘ Do I have to spell out to you how important this is to me ? ’ |
| 12 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 13 | If you think back to joining the College , you will realise how important this was to you . |
| 14 | ‘ Where can I find this woman ? ’ the stranger asked quickly , showing in his pale face how important this was to him . |
| 15 | How steady this was to be I could not have known . |