Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a curriculum had served well , and did so for many years afterwards , that small percentage ( less than 10$ ) who enjoyed grammar school education and were marked out to be the leaders of the nation . |
| 2 | But on privatization , they were split off to be the watchdog for what we put into the rivers . |
| 3 | However , it was intended only to be a ‘ provisional ’ arrangement until Germany could be reunited . |
| 4 | The informant was expected usually to be the person 's nearest relative . |
| 5 | Weather was said not to be a factor . |
| 6 | This is illustrated in Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) where insurance was said not to be a suitable alternative to cover the loss of a precious film . |
| 7 | Petr Uhl , a dissident in prison facing charges of spreading false information , was said yesterday to be a victim of disinformation . |
| 8 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 9 | He was made out to be a hero , and became a fully fledged dealer that day . |
| 10 | Dr Adams was made out to be an evil scientist who uses young innocent children for his own benefit . |
| 11 | He was made out to be the bad guy playing against Seve , especially after one of their clashes at Wentworth in the World Matchplay , but I do n't know . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I was made out to be the bad guy . |
| 13 | The man charged with throwing an egg at Mr Major at Eastleigh , Hants , on Monday was revealed yesterday to be a Labour Party member . |
| 14 | THE MAN charged with throwing an egg at Mr Major in Eastleigh , Hants , on Monday was revealed yesterday to be a Labour Party member . |
| 15 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 16 | He was a good listener — and he was egged on to be a performer by his listeners . ’ |
| 17 | there was no duty of care owed by the owners of an oil rig to a rescuer who was found not to be a man of ordinary fortitude and phlegm and who suffered psychiatric injuries from experiences during a rescue operation when an oil rig went on fire . |
| 18 | As a matter of principle this seems excessively hard on third parties ; the buffer stock Manager was known publicly to be the representative of the International Tin Council , there was reliance upon this by the third parties and the States therefore should not be able later to deny their involvement . |
| 19 | It was Brian Mullin , 25 , who was reputed locally to be the real IRA commander in mid-Tyrone . |
| 20 | I was brought up to be a butcher , ’ the man replied , looking me cordially in the eye . |
| 21 | From his first sip of welfare orange juice , he was cut out to be a professional Glaswegian . |
| 22 | A phrenologist — that careers master of the nineteenth century — once examined Flaubert and told him he was cut out to be a tamer of wild beasts . |
| 23 | But the new town church , large and imposing though it was , was allowed only to be a dependent chapel of the mother-church , without the right of burial of the dead . |
| 24 | Rostov was determined not to be the first to turn away . |
| 25 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 26 | The position of a shareholder in a brewer 's business was discussed in Braithwaite 's Trs. v. Linlithgow Justices ( Scotsman , January 27 , 1909 ) , and he was held not to be a partner for the purposes of a similar provision . |
| 27 | In Cigaro ( Glasgow ) Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1983 S.L.T. 549 it was held not to be a breach of natural justice to hear only submissions and not to allow evidence to be led , where this was the practice of the licensing board . |
| 28 | It was so held in , among other cases , JCC ( A Minor ) v Eisenhower [ 1984 ] QB 331 ( DC ) , where a ruptured blood vessel was held not to be a wound . |
| 29 | A lady who lived in family with her father , whose housekeeper she was , in the house which he owned and occupied , was held not to be an occupier for the purposes of the corresponding provision of the 1959 Act , s.36 , and to have no title to object to an application . |
| 30 | The question of who is an " occupant " is discussed in Paterson v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 37 , where a new manager who applied for a permanent transfer of an off sale licence was held not to be an " occupant " where he had no interest in the premises other than as an employee . |