Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minority were badly enough damaged to be at risk of dying . |
| 2 | There was a clear preference amongst the subordinates for the consultative style of leadership but managers were most commonly thought to be exercising the ‘ tells ’ or ‘ sells , style . |
| 3 | But we must accept that these occasional audible signals were not even meant to be heard by all the chorus singers : they were to be heard by the sub-conductor(s) , who would then relay the beat visually . |
| 4 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 5 | Whatever the rules were , they were not necessarily made to be broken , but they were n't necessarily there to be obeyed either . |
| 6 | These were also sufficiently condensed to be poured into a flexible plastic ‘ dosing ’ ball . |
| 7 | The Design Controller does n't have a program written especially for changing the pattern but I 've spend some time wondering if any of the programs could be used for this purpose , even if they were n't originally intended to be ; however , I 've had no success . |
| 8 | What Jeffery ( and Matza , who quotes Jeffery in support of his own position ) are pointing to here is that whatever positivists chose as the causes of crime , even when they were ‘ external ’ such as ‘ social and group ’ factors , they always excluded the nature and operation of the criminal law from consideration ; such things were simply not taken to be implicated in the process of causing criminal behaviour . |
| 9 | Finally , the judge held that the defendants , although not guilty of bad faith , had acted in breach of their fiduciary duties and were therefore not entitled to be paid their commission . |
| 10 | Yet , in spite of the leading position in its political life of the Orange family , it was also clearly not a monarchy in the normal sense of that term : its representatives were therefore not entitled to be treated as those of a crowned head . |
| 11 | Although persistent overlapping and the resultant anomalies means that none of these economic groupings were exclusive , the character of each is governed by the bias of its composition ; the minor gentlemen comprehended in the £10. — £19 range for instance , were too heavily outnumbered to be in any real sense typical of it . |