Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [was/were] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just the same as er , again whenever you get a with , that that was supposed to be the bigger of the |
| 2 | Donations of fire-fighting equipment and technical advice began to arrive in late October , but observers commented that these were likely to be largely of symbolic political value only . |
| 3 | Although these were supposed to be held monthly , devious excuses were manifold when one side or the other wished to dodge an awkward issue . |
| 4 | He found the parish set-up conventional and that was hard to be bear ; ‘ irksome ’ he called it . |
| 5 | The only time I had was five hours on the Sunday beforehand , and that was supposed to be a rest day . ’ |
| 6 | There were only 50 left in Java , and that was supposed to be it . |
| 7 | Would it not be a national tragedy if that were all to be thrown away by any alternative team of Ministers , who were wrong about every international defence issue in the 1980s and who carry no conviction in the 1990s ? |
| 8 | He could have wandered unchecked all over north London if he had had a mind to it , but this was supposed to be Bienvida 's party and he and Bienvida were supposed to be there . |
| 9 | He had already prepared the ground for the extension of the concrete flooring , and , since this was likely to be the last Sunday of the year when it would not freeze , the next job was to prepare the concrete mixture , which lay against the wall in a large bag . |
| 10 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 11 | A month or so before this was due to be delivered , however , a curt memorandum arrived from the Energy Department warning the group that it ‘ should resist getting drawn into the fray ’ . |