Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of a complete index was demonstrated to be so important to bureaux workers that plans to cut the reissue of the index from four times a year to three were shortlived . |
| 2 | People could borrow from the social fund , he said , and get money that was interest-free , but money was taken from their income support immediately , even though that support was meant to be the lowest level of income on which one could cope . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen you before in my life , ’ I said , not believing for a minute that honesty was going to be the best policy . |
| 4 | Alice saw that murder was going to be done , and shrieked uselessly . |
| 5 | Transcription of the exogenous sequences was shown to be alpha-amanitin resistant , which indicates that the procyclin/PARP promoter was active . |
| 6 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 7 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 8 | the district judge held that each defendant was bound to be found negligent . |
| 9 | The conditions of mass unemployment certainly helped to support the feeling of leniency , in that crime was thought to be an inevitable consequence of poverty , so that there was an active sympathy for the young unemployed whose miserable condition was further highlighted in a perceived increase of suicides among the young . |
| 10 | The intrapatient standard deviation for this parameter was assumed to be 0.6 mmol/l . |
| 11 | High support was found to be associated with a low rate of illness , and a high level of events with a high rate of illness . |
| 12 | McLeish , sitting on the other side of her , huddled on the uncomfortable bench-seating , could smell the faint perfume she wore and thought , with what detachment he could bring to bear , that one of the minor complications of this case was going to be the reactions of every man involved as suspect , colleague or witness , to this beauty he had managed to import on to his staff . |
| 13 | He wondered whether it was the beginning of age , or one more sign that this case was going to be different . |
| 14 | However , by February 1991 , this deficit was shown to be rising rather than falling and the government introduced austerity measures [ see p. 38113 ] . |
| 15 | Although in theory sorcery could result in the target 's immediate death , this variety was believed to be difficult and dangerous to carry out . |
| 16 | Schools where the size of the delegated budget was seen to be adequate , or even generous , were able to take more steps along the path to staff involvement in decision-making than those with a reduced budget . |
| 17 | Sadly , this ceremony was destined to be the last visit to School by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , who died suddenly a fortnight later whilst on a cruise to the West Indies . |
| 18 | James Butterworth followed the hooligan careers of similar boys — ‘ Sam Smiler ’ and ‘ Thomas Tiddler ’ — along with the apprenticeship of ‘ Tiddler Junior ’ , because the British hooligan was thought to be getting younger in his time , as in ours : |
| 19 | Soviet Kurds numbered 152,952 according to the 1989 census , although this figure was believed to be substantially underestimated . |
| 20 | This practice was held to be lawful in an earlier case , in which Lord Justice Woolf referred to ; |
| 21 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 22 | By the 1960s , however , the ‘ success ’ of the existing social formation was beginning to be called into question in various ways . |
| 23 | In any case the State Department was uncertain about the nature of the Vietminh 's communist connections — ‘ possibly in indirect touch with Moscow and direct touch with Yenan ’ — and French influence was reckoned to be important not only as an antidote to Soviet influence but also to protect Vietnam and Southeast Asia from ‘ future Chinese imperialism ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 25 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 26 | The explanatory power ( coefficient of multiple determination R2 ) of this test was found to be 0.743 on average over the 42 groups . |
| 27 | If the parent of the opposite sex was unconsciously seductive with this adult when a young child , and if the excitement of the love of and for this parent was felt to be too dangerous , or was disapproved of by the parent of the same sex , passion and excitement within marriage may continue to be forbidden by an inner imperative . |
| 28 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 29 | He felt a mixture of astonishment at himself and irritation that his rigid daily routine was going to be broken after forty undisturbed years . |
| 30 | The subsequent interviews reinforced the view that the detail of the information base was too fine in its original form to be the basis of searching questions , and some summation was found to be necessary to avoid redundancy , or posing questions that could insult the intelligence of the interviewee . |