Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was generally considered to be brilliant , although it seems to me that it was as much my father 's achievement as my own , and probably perceived unconsciously by him as such . |
| 2 | This was widely thought to be a good omen . |
| 3 | This was widely thought to be the factor which attracted Iranians to the Pasdaran and others , young and old , to the baeej , or volunteer corps . |
| 4 | He was also considered in some quarters to be less than entirely open in his Turf operations : his trainer Tom Coulthwaite had had his licence withdrawn earlier in 1913 over the running of two Ismay horses , though this was widely held to be an injustice . |
| 5 | ‘ This was clearly intended to be a show of strength and involved a group of men simply taking the law into their own hands , ’ she said . |
| 6 | This was clearly intended to be used not only during the workshop to receive the professionally published course material [ not the usual duplicated sheets ] but as a personal organizer which would be a continual reminder to the participant of the course content . |
| 7 | This was later discovered to be the case . |
| 8 | This was later found to be a general property of toroidal discharges , including pinches and tokamaks . |
| 9 | This was later found to be untrue , as neither of her daughters nor her son received any schooling or tuition of any sort for the five weeks they were away . |
| 10 | Although this was later found to be correct , there was no way of telling how true it was at the time . |
| 11 | ( This was later found to be so ) . |
| 12 | This was later proved to be a nonsense as the Hadfield-Manchester section was converted a couple of years after closure of the rest of the system . |
| 13 | Whereas in March 1989 a public-sector debt repayment ( PSDR ) of nearly £14,000 million in 1989-90 had been forecast [ see p. 36529 ] , this was now expected to be only just over £7,000 million , and a broadly similar PSDR of £6,900 million was currently projected for 1990-91 . |
| 14 | By 1936 , the year of Rowntree 's second survey in York , 15 per cent of the poor were found to be old people , but this was still adjudged to be a far less significant cause of poverty than unemployment or low wages . |
| 15 | Stocks of the attached leaflet have almost run out and as this was always intended to be an interim in-house production we now feel we should produce a glossier version on a better quality paper in the style of the leaflets we have recently produced for Community Care and Assessment . |
| 16 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |
| 17 | This was once thought to be a productive and praiseworthy way to make the best of almost useless land ; but now environmental groups point out how this practice can involve the destruction of important wet-land and wilderness . |
| 18 | He was also able to exact other taxes from them , notably the ‘ aids ’ ; these were originally considered to be ‘ free-will ’ offerings to help the lord in difficult situations , but like so many voluntary contributions , they rapidly became customary taxes in many parts of Europe . |
| 19 | Both were also found to be non-portable and non-extensible to other applications . |