Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
| 2 | A probability value less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant . |
| 3 | We had Paul Gascoigne pulling someone 's shorts down the other night , and that was deemed to be a prankster at work . |
| 4 | How did the news media , scientists and governments take on board a claim that made no sense within the laws of physics , was based in part on wrong data and that was shown to be flawed within days of the announcement ? |
| 5 | She said the TEC could offer disabled trainees help with loan of equipment , or could extend the tuition period if that was felt to be useful . |
| 6 | During the 1960s , ozone concentrations generally increased by up to 10 per cent at some monitoring stations ( Komhyr et al. , 1971 ) , and this was believed to be associated with variation in solar radiation over the 11-year cycle ( Keating , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | Even major institutions with developing reputations were unsuccessful in their first-time submissions — and this was bound to be particularly true in arts and social studies where members were anxious to ensure appropriate standards of course content and all that related to it — including staffing and other resources . |
| 8 | The final phase in the procedure involved giving parents advice about prospective job opportunities for their children , and this was considered to be the most difficult part of the work as it meant balancing all the different factors in an attempt to situate the best applicant in the best position . |
| 9 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 10 | One of the brown immigrants deliberately poured some of his coffee over the pale slab of sugar crusted fruit pie he was eating , and this was thought to be a brilliant piece of improvised humour . |
| 11 | The order could , for example , provide for the child to live with his grandmother during term time and his parents during the school holidays if this was felt to be in his best interests . |
| 12 | An essential requirement surely , if this was meant to be in any way a useful gift , would be an adequate number of notes . |
| 13 | To date only 40 tickets have been sold and 50 was considered to be a viable number . |
| 14 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 15 | In addition , Wagaddon , publishers of the magazine , had its own legal bill , but this was said to be less than £35,000 . |
| 16 | Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente . |
| 17 | A 1986 U.S. study found an increased risk to expectant mothers , but this was said to be a small sample , which was followed by two further studies . |
| 18 | The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession . |
| 19 | ( It used to be at more frequent intervals , but this was found to be too disruptive . ) |
| 20 | But this was shown to be an unattainable goal for the simple reason that the meaning of an existential proposition can not be made fully clear without making use of some existential proposition or other as part of the explanans . |
| 21 | But this was meant to be a family day … and they came in their thousands … the Shetland Pony Grand National was as big an attraction as the thoroughbred races . |
| 22 | But 90 was thought to be too many to be easily controlled from the centre , which meant retaining the existing tier of regional administration as an executive arm of government , while the variation in population size was tackled by creating a third tier of management in large areas : the district . |
| 23 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 24 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |