Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tanker was searched by coastguards protected by the marines from H M S Brazen and was found to be carrying stores in breach of the UN embargo ; it 's being diverted to a nearby port on the coast of Amman for further investigations . |
| 2 | Okudaira was still at large and was said to be a member of the Japanese Red Army underground group . |
| 3 | Thomas Fuller Bacon was born in Stamford in 1824 and was considered to be stubborn , selfish and unsociable as a child . |
| 4 | The chemical structure of mescaline was established in 1918 and was found to be closely related to that of adrenaline , which leads to some interesting speculations . |
| 5 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 6 | Phil Wells , 48 , vanished from Heathrow Airport following the theft of the money in 1989 and was believed to be living somewhere in Florida , or possibly dead . |