Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to be [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applications were expected to be the same as those already noted . |
| 2 | The cows were said to be no more than fair milkers , but their milk was particularly creamy . |
| 3 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 4 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 5 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the weak coupling , Gv , for nuclear decay was measured to be the same as the coupling Gv , for another decay process , that of the muon . |
| 7 | When I arrived back in Glasgow on 10 June I wondered if anything was going to be the same again . |
| 8 | And as soon as I cradled the mass in my arms the conviction flooded through me that this was going to be the same as all the others . |
| 9 | There was considerable irony in the fact that it was Baden-Powell , the maverick hero of Mafeking , who should come to rescue England from its Hooligans , if only because the feverish excitement of the jingo crowds and the ‘ Mafficking ’ that accompanied the South African campaign was thought to be no less of an affront to the English sang froid than ‘ Hooliganism ’ itself . |
| 10 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 11 | Puerperal fever was previously unknown in Aberdeen and the epidemic was thought to be no more than the common ephemeral fever known as the ‘ Weed ’ , which was rarely fatal . |
| 12 | Ola Barthelsson was the first man home so the Sailing Challenge was set to be an all Swedish affair . |
| 13 | A second barrel was opened , and a third , but some said this was n't necessary , for it was the accepted custom that if one barrel was found to be wanting , the shortage was assumed to be the same in all the rest . |