Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most has been brought by the relationships that were supposed to be pure and noble . |
| 2 | He found that he was now sensitive to a new series of demands and worries and was liable to be hurt in new ways , and he suffered moments with a sense of futility . |
| 3 | Mr Stewart told the jury six of the group have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal cars and were due to be sentenced on Friday . |
| 4 | And they give them a gill of whisky that was supposed to be for their lunch you see . |
| 5 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 6 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 7 | Gareth spent the night with foster parents and was due to be reunited with his grandparents , who live in Bebington , Wirral , later today . |
| 8 | The youngster spent the night with foster parents and was due to be reunited with his grandparents , who live in Bebington , Wirral , later today . |
| 9 | I decided to give your diagnostic utilities a try and was shocked to be told that it has a 386 processor with a 34.5 performance factor . |
| 10 | Despite flying from New York the previous evening , she had spent all morning in meetings and was due to be photographed both by French Vogue and Elle that afternoon . |
| 11 | ‘ The dowager-duchess , your lady 's mother , is in frail health at present and was reluctant to be separated from her only child . ’ |
| 12 | Now how about there was another place that was due to be closed down . |
| 13 | Upper gastrointestinal lesions that were able to be treated were often found at endoscopy and this should be the primary investigaton in such patients . |
| 14 | I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel , the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers ' parcels and luggage . |
| 15 | She could still feel fitzAlan 's eyes on her and flushed slightly , steeling herself before she could look at him again , and fully expecting a remark that was sure to be unpleasant at best . |
| 16 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 17 | In fact the woman was fed up with the smell that the tomcat caused about the place and was glad to be shot of it . |
| 18 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 19 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 20 | She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly . |
| 21 | Er and these people er understood what could be got f er what little bits could be got out of the er various unemployment er acts , and er this knowledge , er plus the pressures and feelings that were able to be brought to bear , I 'm quite sure did er did benefit many er many people who who were unemployed . |
| 22 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 23 | Shannon gave an involuntary little start as though someone had spoken the words aloud , then laughed self-consciously , realising she 'd simply been hearing the voice of a conscience that was inclined to be over-zealous in its insistence on honesty . |
| 24 | Maybe that was why this picture just would n't work : she was expected to produce a suitable work in return for the fellowship that was supposed to be paying her just to paint . |
| 25 | I had to leave Prague next day and was sorry to be losing his company so soon . |
| 26 | ‘ I had a warm tyre on from the beginning and was delighted to be in the lead at York Corner , Portstewart . |
| 27 | Initially assumed that the level of carbon 14 in the environment that was available to be absorbed by living things remained at a constant level , subsequent research has shown that the amount of carbon 14 varies , possibly as a result of sunspot activity . |
| 28 | Whenever they reached an island that was likely to be visited by European sailors again , they would release a few pigs , to run wild , multiply and form a permanent supply of protein — on islands seemingly not well provisioned for humans . |
| 29 | I went down to Monte Carlo to set up a tournament and was privileged to be granted a meeting with the sports-mad Prince at the Palace . |
| 30 | This had the effect of limiting the range of sentences that were likely to be appealed mainly to prison sentences in the upper reaches of the tariff and , as a result , relatively little guidance was available on the use of non-custodial penalties . |