Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C Professor D.C. Moore has lately questioned how far the Bill was , or was ever thought to be , a concession by the aristocracy . |
| 2 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 3 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 4 | One of the musicians who played in the band with Buddie had once ruffled Frankie 's thick black hair and called him ‘ Smallfry ’ in a way that was not meant to be unkind . |
| 5 | Tawell replied that he was short of money , a fact that was later found to be true . |
| 6 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 7 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 8 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |
| 9 | 3 Elections and party politics are rather less significant in securing democracy and representative and responsible government than was once thought to be the case . |
| 10 | Lapper had certainly been guilty of conceit ( a wrought iron gate had been ordered with senior managers ' initials worked into it ) , but the sentence was interpreted as a politically motivated attack on wastrel public corporations , and was widely felt to be unjust . |
| 11 | The story , published in the USA in 1845 , was reprinted in England as a pamphlet with the title , Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis , and was widely held to be an account of a real experiment . |
| 12 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 13 | He was known to have developed a huge network of patronage , and was widely considered to be the most powerful of the opposition candidates . |
| 14 | In addition to his ministerial role , Richardson was a key spokesman for the ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) in the Senate , and was widely considered to be one of the party 's most influential figures . |
| 15 | This boost did much to wipe out the effect of Balfour 's referendum pledge , which had been made a month before the Reciprocity Agreement and was erroneously believed to be its cause . |
| 16 | I did that and was duly engaged to be a clerk in this pretty little mansion which housed the records of our fighting aircraft . |
| 17 | The ECSC was not , and was not intended to be , that type of institution . |
| 18 | Mr Upham , 45 , was at Labour 's campaign headquarters when police broke the news to him and was not expected to be at last night 's count . |
| 19 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 20 | Clarence House said she was in ‘ very little distress ’ and was not thought to be in any danger , and her admission was purely precautionary . |
| 21 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 22 | But then she was planning to go on the stage and was already reputed to be collecting points for the Equity card . |
| 23 | A 120-member policy-making Sandinista assembly was also elected and was formally elevated to be the FSLN 's superior body despite expectations that the DN would not be answerable to it . |
| 24 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 25 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 26 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 27 | a dangerous dog , as defined by section 1 of the dangerous dogs act 1991 , in a private car which was on a public highway was in a public place , within the meaning of section 10(2) of the act and was therefore required to be muzzled and on a lead as prescribed by section 1(2) ( d ) of the act . |
| 28 | For a man who claimed and was popularly acknowledged to be a man of God , such behaviour was extraordinary to say the least . |
| 29 | The invoice for the painting described it as being by Munter , but was later discovered to be a forgery . |
| 30 | This axiom among others , has faithfully served science and technology for two millenniums , but was ultimately shown to be untrue , in cosmic terms , by Einstein . |