Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 2 | Many inscriptions on monuments that were previously thought to be purely calendrical are now known to commemorate specific events of historical significance , but the only three Maya books that have survived are all devoted to astronomy . |
| 3 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 4 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 5 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 6 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 7 | Tawell replied that he was short of money , a fact that was later found to be true . |
| 8 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 9 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 10 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |