Example sentences of "[conj] nothing was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , Ealhfrith began to favour Roman tradition while his father , Bede says , considered that nothing was to be preferred to the teachings of the Scottish clergy ( HE III , 25 ) . |
| 2 | The gentleman took due note of it in a single glance , decided that nothing was to be gained by ill temper , and , reassembling his smile , he turned it upon her full-force . |
| 3 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 4 | In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Buffon remarked : ‘ Young cats are gay , vivacious , frolicksome , and , if nothing was to be apprehended from their claws , would afford excellent amusement to children . |
| 5 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 6 | He went round the corner of the building shining his lamp but nothing was to be seen . |