Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 27 reported that the debts were understood to be owed mainly to the Soviet Union and east European states , and possibly Iran . |
| 2 | He stressed that ‘ Heshang ’ was mainly intended to raise questions and some of the reactions were bound to be critical . |
| 3 | The proposals were believed to be ‘ an attempt to cash limit a demand led service which will damage the doctor/patient relationship and be detrimental to patient care . ’ |
| 4 | The proposals were expected to be endorsed by the special party congress . |
| 5 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 6 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 7 | These were analogous to the special migrant stations in the United States and Russia with the exception that most of the Tamils were expected to be only temporary migrants . |
| 8 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 9 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 10 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
| 11 | The remainder of the plates were taken to be placed on the table , and she began rolling the cutlery into paper napkins , her fingers shaking as she did so . |
| 12 | The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically |
| 13 | It was feared that members of Mboya 's Luo tribe would retaliate against the Kikuyu , the group who dominated the country 's political life and of which the assassins were assumed to be members . |
| 14 | The imports were said to be stifling local recycling industries . |
| 15 | As more loyal forces were moved into the area , the rebels were reported to be short of supplies , and forced to rely upon food donations from a local religious group . |
| 16 | The applications were expected to be the same as those already noted . |
| 17 | Two-thirds of the statements were found to be biased : this was particularly evident when developers had not used outside consultants to prepare the statements , and where the developer was also the planning authority . |
| 18 | The contents were expected to be badly corroded : in fact , with minimum effort bolts were undone , springs sprang , hinges opened and moving parts were easily freed . |
| 19 | In the event neither the manager nor the owners were held to be in breach of duty . |
| 20 | As the waters were considered to be particularly efficacious in spring , the first Sunday in May became known around the Calder Valley as Spaw Sunday . |
| 21 | In April 1991 his visual acuities were 6/12 right and 6/24 left and the discs were noted to be pale . |
| 22 | The bombings were thought to be in retaliation for the shooting by British soldiers in an undercover operation on Oct. 9 of IRA activists Desmond Grew and Martin McCaughey near Loughgall in south Armagh . |
| 23 | Some of the changes were felt to be long overdue , such as a scale 3 second in department for English , and it was not always clear whether the appraisal had been the driving force behind a particular change or whether it had simply brought some long-standing problems to urgent attention . |
| 24 | The changes were meant to be implemented by 1998 , by which time juniors would spend an average of 6.5 years in the combined registrar and senior registrar grades . |
| 25 | During the final checks , the wheels were seen to be bent , and the flight had to be postponed whilst they were fixed . |
| 26 | The audiences were reported to be ‘ impressed by the author 's warmth and zest for life ’ . |
| 27 | Toby was referring to one of the great stars in the American golfing firmament whom the sponsors were said to be paying £50,000 in appearance money , much to the disgust of most of the other professionals . |
| 28 | The characters were said to be stiff . |
| 29 | In the silence that followed most of the chiefs were seen to be in tears and the council was dissolved until the afternoon . |
| 30 | It says a lot about the quality of US diplomatic thinking that the Americans were flattered to be put on the same level as the Soviet rulers . |