Example sentences of "which was [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 2 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
| 3 | By 1989 , he was publicly proclaiming his intention of imitating Albania and anchoring a ban on foreign loans in the constitution , which was clearly going to be more binding on his successors than himself . |
| 4 | Officers took unkindly to being reformed by a self-educated and self-appointed expert in civil-military relations ; many , retired and active alike , began to conspire against a Republic which was increasingly seen to be not only anti-military but also ‘ soft ’ on the two issues that most obsessed military minds : regionalism and public order . |
| 5 | After only 4000 reactor years worldwide , Chernobyl approached the worst conceivable nuclear reactor accident , which was previously estimated to be of a probability somewhere near 1 in 10,000 or even I in a million per reactor year . |
| 6 | It came from statesmen and reformers who held that entails , by precluding a free market in land , artificially raised its value so that investment became unprofitable ; it was a hindrance to a wider diffusion of ownership , which was universally held to be a precondition of increased production . |
| 7 | There was no time to write a libretto from scratch , so Guardasoni proposed an adaptation of Metastasio 's La clemenza di Tito ( the Clemency of Titus ) which was generally felt to be suitable for the occasion . |
| 8 | I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers . |
| 9 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 10 | It recommended that the honours course for full-time students should be four years in length , and it called on the DES to explore and resource such a departure — which was eventually to prove to be the pattern adopted . |
| 11 | They were already exciting considerable attention in 1953 , some years before the emergence of rock-and-roll which was commonly alleged to be the depraving ‘ Americanising ’ root of their violent energies . |
| 12 | Princess Coronation Class 46229 ‘ Duchess of Hamilton ’ which was originally hoped to be steamed between Carlisle and Perth later this year , has been withdrawn due to restrictions being imposed on the locomotive by ScotRail engineers . |
| 13 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
| 14 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 15 | Generating company managers had merely allowed water levels to run down in the hope that the drought would eventually end ; only in March 1992 did they admit to a disaster , announcing nationwide rationing which was currently believed to be costing the economy an estimated US$330,000 each week . |
| 16 | For example , it may become necessary to reject information which was initially taken to be reliable and important enough to interpret and organise subsequent information dealing with the same topic . |
| 17 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 18 | In the second half , they were on top again , but just could n't get the first goal , which was always going to be vital in such a close battle . |
| 19 | In support of this submission the defendants rely on the observations of Lord Wilberforce in the Rank Film case , at p. 443 , when considering the adequacy of the protection of the undertaking which was there sought to be imposed as a term of the grant of an Anton Piller order . |