Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pavlova was unusually slender in an era when women were expected to be well rounded . |
| 2 | The contents were expected to be badly corroded : in fact , with minimum effort bolts were undone , springs sprang , hinges opened and moving parts were easily freed . |
| 3 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Anglo-American forces were expected to be fully stretched in air strikes against the USSR and in the maintenance of lines of communication across the Atlantic . |
| 5 | Overall , patients were deemed to be psychologically stressed if the physician had noted stress at any of the scheduled appointments . |
| 6 | Critics of the regime were reported to be openly venting their displeasure ‘ at new laws , announcements of the government about future Party buildings , the planned social legislation , school reform , etc. , ’ and pointed to ‘ the higher taxes , the restrictions on personal freedom , the ‘ threat to the Christian philosophy ’ , the promotions in the civil service almost solely on the basis of attitude and Party membership without any consideration of ability , the activity of the Gestapo , the ‘ reign of terror ’ ( Schreckensregiment ) , the ‘ corruption ’ ’ , and the mismanagement of Party hacks and bosses , and were said to be conveying their discontent and doubts ‘ to ever wider circles ’ . |
| 7 | Foreign observers declared the elections fair , but irregularities ( such as lack of voter privacy , and the presence of uniformed officers and local mayors canvassing outside polling stations ) were reported to be more pronounced in the second round . |
| 8 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 9 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 10 | While the planned closure of both Digby and Exminster did mean some transitory inter-hospital transfers , both the chronic long-stay population and elderly people with dementia were considered to be better cared for in the community . |
| 11 | Ships sailing to India which were not directly owned or managed by the Company were considered to be permanently chartered to the Company , but the value of the charter to the vessel 's owners and officers was determined by the port to which it was sent , and that was a decision made by the Company . |
| 12 | People in Schweinfurt itself who had suffered directly from the bombing were said to be completely demoralized and had declared that they would not hold out much longer in ‘ such nerve-racking days ’ . |
| 13 | Restrictive measures have been directed at Third World manufacturers whose electronic and electrical products , garments , shoes , toys , sporting and household goods were said to be unfairly flooding vulnerable First World markets . |
| 14 | South Korea called on the North to accept inspection of its nuclear facilities , which were said to be well advanced in developing a nuclear device [ see p. 38396 ] . |
| 15 | James 's family were said to be absolutely devastated . |
| 16 | One was a complicated case in which the client had a number of relatives living nearby , who were said to be always arguing with each other ( including about the client 's care ) . |
| 17 | Iran and pro-Iranian forces in Lebanon were thought to be particularly angered at the lack of pressure by the USA on Israel to obtain the release of more than 300 Lebanese Moslem hostages in south Lebanon . |
| 18 | Conventional scientific wisdom has held that whales are relatively immune from the effects of toxic chemicals , because such contaminants were thought to be safely stored in the blubber , a tissue considered to be fairly inert . |
| 19 | In a study of 102 scimitar-horned oryx juvenile survival rates were shown to be inversely related to the degree of inbreeding . |
| 20 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 21 | But at the same time , it is clear that as soon as the war was over the purely economic contradictions were bound to be excessively aggravated . |
| 22 | It was not long , however , before her father 's forebodings were proved to be well founded . |
| 23 | Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken . |
| 24 | After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above . |
| 25 | No less than eighty-five per cent of the catering and retail outlets and eighty-four per cent of the accommodation establishments were found to be locally owned in the six locations where detailed research was done : Arundel , Broadway , Chipping Campden , Lavenham , Long Melford and Woodstock . |
| 26 | 13% were found to be cognitively impaired . |
| 27 | In the North of England , nearly half of firms visited were found to be illegally underpaying workers . |
| 28 | The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right . |
| 29 | These ratios were found to be mainly associated with recent returns on equity , growth rates and debt/equity ratios . |
| 30 | The anti-social childhood behaviours which were found to be significantly associated with adult sociopathy were : pathological lying , lack of guilt , sexual perversion , impulsiveness , truanting , being a runaway , physical aggression , a poor employment record , premarital intercourse , theft , incorrigibility , staying out late , having ‘ bad ’ associates and recklessness . |