Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [was/were] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistaken biological beliefs , such that the male alone was thought to be a full human being , underlay western culture , making this seem the more plausible . |
| 2 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 3 | Where normality for each group separately was found to be appropriate by using probability plots a two sample t test was used to compare the mean values of each variable of interest between the regulated and random groups . |
| 4 | The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken . |
| 5 | Her vast deposits were in 1880 still largely unexplored ; those of Silesia alone were believed to be even greater than the huge fields already opened in Great Britain . |
| 6 | CONVICTED wife-killer James Rudman today was expected to be extradited to Britain from the Irish Republic . |
| 7 | One of the waterwheels that drove machinery here was said to be the biggest in England . |
| 8 | Her replacement had proved a sad disappointment to the French soldiery , besides which the management and composer alike were said to be dissatisfied with the work in its present form . |
| 9 | Any 50m hand and off-width crack with no Friends or chalk and just two ring bolts , 20m apart was begging to be climbed . |
| 10 | Their first encounter today was going to be a tense and difficult one . |
| 11 | Originally , the Sandie Shaw A-side was going to be ‘ I Do n't Owe You Anything ’ but the revived freshness of ‘ Hand In Glove ’ virtually powered its way onto the A-side . |
| 12 | The objection here was held to be irrelevant . |
| 13 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |