Example sentences of "[coord] was [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C Professor D.C. Moore has lately questioned how far the Bill was , or was ever thought to be , a concession by the aristocracy . |
| 2 | Lapper had certainly been guilty of conceit ( a wrought iron gate had been ordered with senior managers ' initials worked into it ) , but the sentence was interpreted as a politically motivated attack on wastrel public corporations , and was widely felt to be unjust . |
| 3 | The story , published in the USA in 1845 , was reprinted in England as a pamphlet with the title , Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis , and was widely held to be an account of a real experiment . |
| 4 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 5 | He was known to have developed a huge network of patronage , and was widely considered to be the most powerful of the opposition candidates . |
| 6 | In addition to his ministerial role , Richardson was a key spokesman for the ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) in the Senate , and was widely considered to be one of the party 's most influential figures . |
| 7 | This boost did much to wipe out the effect of Balfour 's referendum pledge , which had been made a month before the Reciprocity Agreement and was erroneously believed to be its cause . |
| 8 | I did that and was duly engaged to be a clerk in this pretty little mansion which housed the records of our fighting aircraft . |
| 9 | The ECSC was not , and was not intended to be , that type of institution . |
| 10 | Mr Upham , 45 , was at Labour 's campaign headquarters when police broke the news to him and was not expected to be at last night 's count . |
| 11 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 12 | Clarence House said she was in ‘ very little distress ’ and was not thought to be in any danger , and her admission was purely precautionary . |
| 13 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 14 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 15 | But then she was planning to go on the stage and was already reputed to be collecting points for the Equity card . |
| 16 | A 120-member policy-making Sandinista assembly was also elected and was formally elevated to be the FSLN 's superior body despite expectations that the DN would not be answerable to it . |
| 17 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 18 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 19 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 20 | He did not gel with Chapman , and was never going to be a direct replacement , so I could n't see where he was going to fit in long-term . |
| 21 | a dangerous dog , as defined by section 1 of the dangerous dogs act 1991 , in a private car which was on a public highway was in a public place , within the meaning of section 10(2) of the act and was therefore required to be muzzled and on a lead as prescribed by section 1(2) ( d ) of the act . |
| 22 | For a man who claimed and was popularly acknowledged to be a man of God , such behaviour was extraordinary to say the least . |
| 23 | The invoice for the painting described it as being by Munter , but was later discovered to be a forgery . |
| 24 | This axiom among others , has faithfully served science and technology for two millenniums , but was ultimately shown to be untrue , in cosmic terms , by Einstein . |
| 25 | Doctor Maingay was fifty if she was a day but was widely known to be unmarried . |
| 26 | Use in a field setting would certainly be desirable , but was not felt to be realistic at this stage because of the difficulties posed by the light , wind , rain etc . |
| 27 | The sharpening of the generalization gradient around a stimulus was in some way a consequence of the processes responsible for the formation of the S-R links but was not thought to be itself associative in nature . |
| 28 | A spokeswoman said Courtney had suffered ‘ generalised bruising ’ in the crash but was not thought to be in any danger . |
| 29 | He had undertaken during his campaign to take this step , but was also believed to be under intense pressure from senior military personnel to reconsider this commitment . |
| 30 | Inflation for the month of December was officially stated as 40.1 per cent but was unofficially recognized to be much higher . |