Example sentences of "was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an additional pleasure to recognise his prophetic power of divining where the best art was to be found . |
| 2 | A partial and passionate critic also writing in the middle of the nineteenth century was John Ruskin , as devoted to Turner as Baudelaire was to Delacroix . |
| 3 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 4 | And that was all there was to it . ’ |
| 5 | Fraser was to be the author of Blood of Spain , an oral history of the Civil War . |
| 6 | Glasser was to be the author of a study of a Calabrian village , and the Spanish war bears a bleak meaning in the story he tells here . |
| 7 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | Glasser 's prose is sometimes declamatory and sententious in an old-fashioned sort of way , and sometimes awkward ( ‘ Hidden in the near future , he was to be proved right ’ ) . |
| 9 | When he turned to God it was to someone other : he was surrendering to ‘ something outside oneself ’ . |
| 10 | He was worshipped then for his talent and untimely death — perhaps a little as Eliot was to be worshipped , in the 1940s and '50s , for his saintly abstention from the world . |
| 11 | Keats placed him among the stars , where Keats himself , for similar reasons , was to be placed by Shelley . |
| 12 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 13 | All I did was to out on a raid — unofficially . |
| 14 | But Northern reliance on force , necessary if the character of the state was to be absolutely preserved , was the weakest point and the eventual undoing of the apparent stability achieved by the partition settlement . |
| 15 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 16 | In fact , precisely because Roman catholic power was to be accepted as normative in an entirely natural way by the catholic — nationalist population , the church 's part-active and part-passive acceptance of the capitalist system of government and thorough opposition to socialism had a significant legitimating function for the Irish state-form . |
| 17 | Clearly , the spirit of the laws of this Irish state was to be a religious one and therefore one which would not take account of the then one thousand , and now ten thousand or more of the population in the Southern state who professed no religion . |
| 18 | What was good for catholics was also good for protestants , and Ireland was to be no exception . |
| 19 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 20 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 21 | An examination of the documentation shows that there is , in fact , no real change in the bishops ' view of the relationship between their perception of the good of the state and public morality , and what was to be de facto permissible in the state . |
| 22 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 25 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 26 | The new emphasis was to be on dining rather than drinking , and the design was as sensitive as it could have been . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was to be no eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation this time . |
| 29 | The next boat-train was to Ostend — a bit further north than I had anticipated travelling , but that was n't the problem . |
| 30 | The first one was to the house in Colchester to ask if they 'd mind if I delayed my arrival by one more day . |