Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 2 | The fire , at Cragside , was in a first floor bedroom and was believed to be caused by electrical equipment overheating . |
| 3 | Owen 's own first chosen vehicle , the co-operative community , had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable . |
| 4 | His sister , Moira Coles , 34 , of Mapperley , Nottingham , admitted her part in the conspiracy but was said to be a small cog in the operation . |
| 5 | I 've got nothing against keyboards , in fact I love keyboard music , but if you want to play guitar you should buy a guitar that was made to be played like a guitar . |
| 6 | Cyclosporine is an immunosuppressive drug that was found to be of benefit in a recent double blind study in Crohn 's disease and in an open study conducted in ulcerative colitis . |
| 7 | IN the midst of a defeat from the world champions , Andy Roxburgh may have found the vindication he was looking for in an exercise that was thought to be without relevance for Scotland . |
| 8 | In other contexts the courts have taken a broad , purposive approach to the interpretation of the 1977 Act ; thus in Smith v Eric S Bush ; Harris v Wyre Forest DC [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords held that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report , which purported to prevent the surveyor owing a duty of care to the recipient of the report , was subject to s2 of the Act and was required to be reasonable . |
| 9 | A roundabout was built at the top of Anerley Hill to provide a run-round loop and was said to be located partly in five different boroughs . |
| 10 | The price was high in relation to orthodox equipment but was held to be justified by patient throughput . |
| 11 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 12 | That scepticism and memory were to be important when he became an archbishop and was expected to be a leader in the organization . |
| 13 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 14 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 15 | He wished she was n't for ever tapping on the door of the room that was meant to be his , calling out to him when he did n't answer . |
| 16 | He glanced down at Mariana , throwing her a fresh smile that was meant to be encouraging but she was looking straight ahead , eyes fixed on the sand-spit . |
| 17 | A FIVE million year-old piece of bone that was thought to be the collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib , according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley . |
| 18 | He had a reputation for being tough in the water and was alleged to be a champion of ‘ localism ’ — the attitude of resident surfers who guard their break jealously and resent the intrusion of outsiders . |
| 19 | By the time of Ramesses IV in the Twentieth Dynasty , Amenhotep was worshipped as a dead king and was thought to be an intermediary between men and gods , particularly in relation to Amun , god of Thebes . |
| 20 | Ms Gibson was taken to Hammersmith police station and was said to be too distraught to be interviewed , a CID spokesman said . |
| 21 | At the risk of oversimplifying , the new style of labour relations were designed to overcome a high turnover of skilled workers , intense industrial conflict and a lack of motivation and commitment that was said to be the cause of Japan 's reputation as a producer of shoddy goods . |
| 22 | So Dublin was given a voice , but no responsibility , in the affairs of Northern Ireland , an arrangement that was expected to be well received by the Catholic community . |
| 23 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 24 | Viability was measured using trypan blue exclusion and was found to be >95% both before and after two hours culture . |
| 25 | It entered a private collection but was ordered to be returned to the Nationalgalerie by the Soviet military administration in 1949 . |
| 26 | The expert used a ouija board in an attempt to contact the spirit that was believed to be tormenting them . |
| 27 | The growth of the Welfare State was seen to have developed diseconomies of scale and was seen to be securing staff interests rather than the public 's . |
| 28 | She went with the Reverend Baron and his wife and daughter and was consoled to be among such a party of cheerful worshippers . |
| 29 | Speaker 12 used Creole syntax and phonology and was judged to be black by the majority of respondents , just as they had judged Speaker 2 ( = 11 ) to be black in her " Creole " guise . |
| 30 | Using a marker perfusion technique , however , the uptake of taurocholate and glycocholate was measured in three infants with cystic fibrosis and was noted to be similar to control subjects . |