Example sentences of "[noun] he was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 2 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 3 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 4 | Probably because for a while he was meant to be a wild child around the Hollywood hills . |
| 5 | Last night he was said to be comfortable . |
| 6 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 7 | Last night he was said to be comfortable in the West Highland Hospital , Oban . |
| 8 | My father was obviously enjoying the company of the Masons ; like most people he was gratified to be seen with a well-known golfer and to be ever-so-slightly in the spotlight . |
| 9 | As a Governor he was expected to be continually generous , and it seemed he was always having to spend more money than he could afford . |
| 10 | By the high-priestly families of Jerusalem he was felt to be a threat both to their authority and to their political collaboration with the Roman power . |
| 11 | Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president . |
| 12 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 13 | Attlee , an astute judge of men , banked on Mountbatten 's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk , and in this judgement he was proved to be correct . |
| 14 | Before the burglary he was said to be in good health . |
| 15 | The people at the farm he was hired to were very sympathetic but he still had all his work to do before he could get away . |
| 16 | During his time at York he was invited to be the visitor of the House of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire , the community of priests founded at the end of the last century by Charles Gore . |
| 17 | On 6 April 1990 he returned to this country , but at Dover he was found to be in possession of cannabis and was arrested . |
| 18 | It was customary for boxers to box frequently , and Lynch had twenty-five contests in his twentieth year , by which time he was acknowledged to be the best ‘ wee ’ man in Glasgow . |