Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [was/were] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are numerous records of actions being taken against plays which were considered slanderous to nobles or which were perceived to be in political opposition to government policy , such as Middleton 's cause célèbre , A Game of Chess , which opposed James 's accommodating attitude towards Spain and attracted the protest of the Spanish ambassador . |
| 2 | All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution . |
| 3 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 4 | The decisions , tantamount to a significant downgrading of COMECON ( as also indicated by a sharp staff reduction at the Moscow secretariat ) , and which were expected to be approved at a future summit meeting , were the outcome of an undertaking made at the summit meeting in January [ see p. 37202 ] to review existing COMECON arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 5 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 6 | The worsening crisis in Poland during 1980 and 1981 , and what was believed to be a Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in December 1981 , made matters worse ; so too did Cuban intervention in Angola , and US support for the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua . |
| 7 | The name of the Hooligan , in fact , provided a crystallising focus for any number of overlapping anxieties associated with imperial decline , military incapacity , the erosion of social discipline and moral authority , the eclipse of family life , and what was feared to be the death rattle of ‘ Old England ’ . |
| 8 | Early legislation on the subject of mental handicap failed to distinguish between mental handicap , mental illness , and what was considered to be moral incompetence . |
| 9 | With lamentable predictability , however , there was a wailing from certain quarters against ‘ our ‘ namby-pamby ’ ’ methods ' and ‘ our drawing-room courts ’ , and what was taken to be the excessive leniency of the 1933 Act was accused of unleashing a tidal wave of crime among the young . |
| 10 | The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity . |