Example sentences of "[conj] he was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 2 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 3 | He performed only 24 hours within the first 12 months of the order , and was brought before the Crown Court where he was found to be in breach of the order , which was revoked . |
| 4 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 5 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 6 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 7 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 8 | And that he was meant to be carried out to sea . " |
| 9 | But she confirmed that he was expected to be at the match . |
| 10 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 11 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 12 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 13 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 14 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 15 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 16 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 17 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 18 | Goo-Goo 's greed was legendary , and he was reputed to be a messy eater . |
| 19 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |
| 20 | Gob open and arms flapping , Ashcroft has the rare ability to sing about how he 's ‘ born to fly ’ while looking like he was born to be institutionalised , and make it convincing . |
| 21 | ‘ … that it would look much better if he was seen to be supporting indigenous native art as well as looking to Africa or Latin America . |
| 22 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 23 | In what must now rank as one of the most well worn cliches of modern football , Peter Marinello was dubbed ‘ The Scottish George Best ’ , and with predictable results , the machinery of pop music , fashion and advertising pursued the young Hibernian player as if he was guaranteed to be the next big thing . |
| 24 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 25 | Innocent also had an " acting chancellor " in his second pontifical year , from 1199 to 1200 , Rainald , a papal notary , but he was sent to be archbishop of Acerenza . |
| 26 | Masefield 's choice of his central characters , at least in his later novels , was always a little unexpected , and there is a particular piquancy in the seemingly inappropriate nature , as a romantic hero , of Chisholm Harker , nicknamed Sard ‘ because he was judged to be sardonic ’ and defined as a proud , reticent , austere man . |
| 27 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 28 | A really educated man , if you if anyone had any forms to fill in er it was the postman you invariably went to , because he was considered to be , he could read and write you see . |
| 29 | While he was perceived to be concerned with the great strategic issues of war leadership , the representatives of the Party had to tackle the tedious , and often unpopular , workaday matters affecting daily life in the Heimat . |
| 30 | But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race . |