Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other students joined in and before long , quite spontaneously , a crowd of some 200 or so was found to be singing lustily , with Leonard as the ecstatic , unselfconscious conductor . |
| 2 | IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . |
| 3 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 4 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 5 | Emphasis should be — and surely was intended to be — on the fact of breakdown , and not on the formal technicalities of establishing such breakdown . |
| 6 | At four shillings a copy it came within the purse of most and indeed was judged to be ‘ a manual to the whole kingdom ’ . |
| 7 | She said moving the pupils back and forward was bound to be unsettling and confusing for them . |