Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case Tx was assumed to be negligible . |
| 2 | In every way , the submarine cable was proving to be ‘ … one of the great technical adventures of the 19th century , something akin to exploration of space today ’ .9 |
| 3 | An architect certifying amounts payable to a contractor under a building contract was held to be in the position of an arbitrator in Stevenson v Watson ( 1879 ) 4 CP 148 and therefore not liable to the contractor , and , by a considerable extension of the same argument , not liable to the employer either in Chambers v Goldthorpe [ 1901 ] 1 KB 624 . |
| 4 | The retirement of the Rev William Sleight was intended to be partial . |
| 5 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 6 | A SECOND prosecution against a firm accused of supplying machine tools to Iraq in breach of an export ban was expected to be dropped today . |
| 7 | Richard Ledes was considered to be in a position of trust and was recommended as a fit person to be consulted in any investigation to be made by Scrope . |
| 8 | An ounce of coral beads was reckoned to be worth ten large jars of oil . |
| 9 | The government rejected an offer from the alleged Cali drug cartel leader Jorge Luis Ochoa to mediate their release , but an unofficial " Committee of Leading Citizens " led by former President Alfonso Lopez was reported to be trying to arrange talks between the cartels and the government . |
| 10 | ‘ Because , ’ said Henry , ‘ my pig wife was going to be made into bacon . ’ |
| 11 | At the French Pyreneean cave of Niaux a bison painting in the Salon Noir was found to be 12,890 BP plus or minus 160 years old . |
| 12 | According to section 14(2) , a fishing vessel was deemed to be British-owned if the legal title to the vessel was vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel was beneficially owned by one or more qualified companies or , as to not less than 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 13 | As a result , the range of permissible accounting treatments was seen to be amazingly broad . |
| 14 | Forced repatriation was reportedly favoured by public opinion in the colony and the issue of the boat people was expected to be a major issue in the first elections to the legislature due in September . |
| 15 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |
| 16 | Classical literature tells us that through the centuries love was deemed to be compatible with a good marriage and in the Middle Ages canon law , by basing the validity of marriage on free consent , upheld love as a precursor of the union . |
| 17 | The site of maximally changed local blood flow was found to be in area 44 . |
| 18 | One of the very special things Christine did for her was to write notes to leave for the tradesmen when Miss Miggs was going to be out when they called — like NO MILK TODAY , THANK YOU , or ONE SMALL LOAF , PLEASE . |
| 19 | ( D.C. 1988 ) , a legal aid application was held to be subject to legal privilege . |
| 20 | Whatever the reason for the sharing of the horse , the two men kept their transaction-secret and for many months Kilpatrick was thought to be still the sole owner . |
| 21 | When Bobby Moore — still trim , still neat , the Mod That Time Forgot — stepped forward to unveil the portrait , Bobby Charlton was shown to be wearing a halo — a luminous skidmark , or slather in the paint , lighting the night sky above his head . |
| 22 | In inflammatory bowel disease an increased expression of ICAM-1 on mucosal mononuclear phagocytes on colonic biopsy specimens was shown to be associated with the maintenance of chronic inflammation and the induction of ICAM-1 expression has been seen on bile duct epithelium , endotheoium , and hepatocytes of liver allografts undergoing acute rejection . |
| 23 | A silver candlestick was waiting to be lit and a tiny bowl held red rosebuds . |
| 24 | Again , inhibition of suppressor cell activity was postulated to be responsible . |
| 25 | I am not aware of the details but the compulsory incident reporting system was found to be wanting and so was changed to a voluntary one . |
| 26 | The variance within subjects and within biopsy samples was found to be higher for the BrdU method than the PCNA method , but the variance within crypts was equal ( Table II ) . |
| 27 | The prescribing unit for the two study practices was calculated to be 3.3 based on cost for patients over 65 years ( men 4.1 , women 2.8 ) and 3.9 for items ( men 4.7 and women 3.3 ) . |
| 28 | In a pre-election press conference on Dec. 24 , President Chadli Benjedid was understood to be referring to the FIS when he criticized those " who adopt violence as a method of political conduct " . |
| 29 | Last night PC Hall was said to be comfortable in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 30 | The company Directors Disqualification Act was seen to be starting to bit when figures produced in Impecunias , the magazine jointly run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Law Society of Scotland for insolvency specialists , showed a sudden surge in disqualifications in Scotland form just 49 by the end of April 1992 to 102 by the end of March this year . |