Example sentences of "and [noun pl] were [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 2 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 3 | Diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia were established on Dec. 28 , 1989 , and ambassadors were expected to be exchanged in 1990 . |
| 4 | Because of these common anatomical and behavioural features lampreys and hagfishes were thought to be most closely related to one another among the modern fauna and were recognized as cyclostomes ( Fig. 2A , a ) . |
| 5 | Around 100,000 asylum seekers and refugees were estimated to be living in Switzerland at the end of 1990 , over half of them being people whose applications had not yet been processed . |
| 6 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 7 | The stores were in good condition after 18 years ; cocoa , salt , flour and matches were found to be as good as when first placed there . |
| 8 | Around Sheffield this was known as the " stuffing system " and prices were said to be overvalued three-fold . |
| 9 | Over the next two days , 30,000 troops and police were reported to be engaged in searches for suspected militants . |
| 10 | Morgan , acting as a consultant to the SBSA , did not provoke a public run on the bank and withdrawals were reported to be only slightly higher than normal . |
| 11 | More generally in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe , children , livestock , milk and crops were believed to be vulnerable to the witchcraft of jealous neighbours . |
| 12 | And what do you think of the idea of ways that the , that the way the house types were graded , the fact that some of them were in fact meant to be executive or managerial classes and others were meant to be for people with less income , do you think that this is again recreating this sort of class system within the planning of the town ? |
| 13 | In the " Pac-Man " computer games the maze and dots were deemed to be idea , being necessarily dictated by the program function , but the " Pac-Man " and " ghost monsters " characters were considered to be expression as different graphical representations could have been used . |
| 14 | Hygiene standards and practices were found to be appalling . |