Example sentences of "and he was [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 2 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 3 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 4 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 5 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 6 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 7 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 8 | Goo-Goo 's greed was legendary , and he was reputed to be a messy eater . |
| 9 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |