Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [was/were] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 2 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 3 | Probably because for a while he was meant to be a wild child around the Hollywood hills . |
| 4 | Last night he was said to be comfortable . |
| 5 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 6 | Last night he was said to be comfortable in the West Highland Hospital , Oban . |
| 7 | As a Governor he was expected to be continually generous , and it seemed he was always having to spend more money than he could afford . |
| 8 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 9 | Attlee , an astute judge of men , banked on Mountbatten 's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk , and in this judgement he was proved to be correct . |
| 10 | Before the burglary he was said to be in good health . |
| 11 | It was customary for boxers to box frequently , and Lynch had twenty-five contests in his twentieth year , by which time he was acknowledged to be the best ‘ wee ’ man in Glasgow . |