Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , under Hugh MacLennan , he was able to form his judgment and turn his phrases under the eye of a skilful novelist , in Louis Dudek 's adroit hands he was able to fashion and test his poetic acumen to the full ; both were to be of absorbing interest to him . |
| 2 | For the CNAA 's relationships with the polytechnics in the 1970s the uncertainties surrounding this question , and the different interpretations of it by different polytechnic directors and within the CNAA itself , were to be of central importance . |
| 3 | The projects were to be of real and lasting value , and able in the long run to pay for themselves . |
| 4 | The miniscule middle-class membership was insignificant as a group , but the survival of the publishing arm of the organization and the influence of the society on Arnold Leese were to be of crucial significance to the development of racial fascism in Britain . |
| 5 | The Report emphasized what had been the Council 's interpretation of its Charter and Statutes from the outset — if the Council 's degrees were to be of comparable standard to those awarded by universities then : |
| 6 | Moreover the towns were to be of diverse and balanced social composition : |
| 7 | All were to be at equal expense for the working of the mine . |
| 8 | One was to be with Western Europe , led ( pretty explicitly ) by a united Germany . |
| 9 | Quickly she outlined the plan , explaining that the party was to be for local children who were handicapped or disadvantaged in some way . |
| 10 | The work of Hume , Kant and Lessing was to be of especial significance for theology ; for while they undermined the earlier kind of rationalism by restricting the claims and powers of reason and pointing to the sheer variety and diversity of history , they raised equally sharp questions for theologians . |
| 11 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 12 | There would be no appeal against the Court 's decisions ; by rooting the whole ECSC structure in the last resort in the rule of law , the drafters of the treaty introduced a concept which was to be of tremendous importance for European integration as a whole . |
| 13 | The pressure of the streets was to be of decisive importance in the liberal revolution of 1820 , when it was organized by the secret societies . |
| 14 | Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value ; Charles had confirmed that a friendly relationship existed between the great kingdom of the Franks and Rome , and that a pope could make demands upon the Frankish king in full expectation of support and response — perhaps even of obedience . |
| 15 | It was to be of great importance to countries like France and Switzerland where a shortage of mineral fuels could be offset by an abundance of hydroelectric power . |
| 16 | For this reason , as we shall see , the architecture of Holyrood palace was to be of crucial political importance in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 17 | His later role as a kind of travelling salesman of international anti-semitism is only tangentially related to the scope of this study , although he was to be of considerable significance in his role as vice-president of the IFL and the legacy he bequeathed to Arnold Leese was to help him revive racial nationalism after the Second World War . |
| 18 | It was therefore at Florence that agreement between Greeks and Latins was reached — though again it was to be of short duration . |
| 19 | As Democratic majority leader in the Senate between 1954 and 1960 , he had perfected the " Johnson treatment " , a technique that was to be of immense value to him in the presidency . |
| 20 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |