Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finished the blackleading — a truly nasty job which she was glad to be done with early in the day . |
| 2 | On the morning of the days on which they were due to be announced , the dealing manager of DPR Futures would scream at the AEs : " This is it . |
| 3 | The Royal Navy relieved these men of the burden of privileged birth , gave them a peer-group of brother officers and an isolated , artificial microcosm of society in which they were free to be themselves . |
| 4 | He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not . |
| 5 | Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice . |
| 6 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 7 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 8 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 9 | The detection rate of cryptosporidiosis in the one year in which it was possible to be calculated was similar to the finding of 1.4% reported by Baxby and Hart . |
| 10 | Kinnock grew up in a society in which it was natural to be Labour and which Labour controlled . |
| 11 | Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church . |
| 12 | It indicates only that a bag of unknown origin was sent from Coding Station 206 at 1:07 p.m. to a position from which it was supposed to be loaded on Pan Am 103 . ’ |
| 13 | The impetus came partly from a growing interest in Schopenhauer 's theory of music , and partly from an uncomfortable sense that his own artistic practice was diverging further and further from the theoretical postulates of which it was supposed to be the realization . |
| 14 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 15 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 16 | Dolores insisted on accompanying me , and because that was what I was supposed to be doing , escorting her , I did n't raise any objections . |
| 17 | I looked at what I was supposed to be reading . |
| 18 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 19 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 20 | He came closer and sat beside her on the grass , close , so that she could hardly concentrate on what she was supposed to be saying . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ she whispered , going pale again with fright as she remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 22 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 23 | We have to admit that each one of us could fail in what we were supposed to be doing and in fact then we could work together , that we could forgive each other and that we could support each other in our work . |
| 24 | Nicholson had completed his scenes , having been kicked to death by two marauding red-necks , leaving Captain America and Billy the Kid to continue their journey to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras , their adventures in a brothel and the LSD scene which took a week to shoot because no one could focus on what they were supposed to be doing . |
| 25 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 26 | He was getting a bit frustrated , they did n't really know what they were supposed to be doing . |
| 27 | She no longer knew what he was supposed to be up to . |
| 28 | I know it 's very stupid of me , but I could n't understand what it was supposed to be about at all . |