Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you was goin' to be a famous pilot this mornin' , ’ retorted George . |
| 2 | The community charge was intended to be a simple and visible system of raising revenue in which the behaviour of profligate ( assumed to be Labour ) councils would be evident to the electorate . |
| 3 | His paper was intended to be a tentative , exploratory investigation of British data and little else besides . |
| 4 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 5 | This is something of a paradox when one remembers Lord Hailsham 's assurance that the 1981 Act was intended to be a liberalising measure . |
| 6 | This was intended to be a temporary measure , but it was so successful that the Chinese authorities gave it formal recognition for the whole of Aglen 's term as inspector-general ( 1911–27 ) . |
| 7 | Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded . |
| 8 | The break was intended to be a long one , possibly a year or two . |
| 9 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 10 | The recreation of a Colorado militia cavalry unit 's massacre of Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek in November 1864 that climaxed Ralph Nelson 's Soldier Blue ( 1970 ) was intended to be a direct reference to the infamous My Lai massacre of 1968 which led to the court-martial and imprisonment of Lt William Calley . |
| 11 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 12 | The C65 was intended to be a low-cost computer with better technical specifications than , but still compatible with , the C64 . |
| 13 | The sacking of MacArthur was a public sacking , it was intended to be a public humiliation of MacArthur , and that 's what it was . |
| 14 | Whilst Lakatos did propose what was intended to be a universal criterion of rationality or scientificity , he did not regard this criterion as a consequence of logic alone , or somehow God-given . |
| 15 | If fusion was really taking place , then these products should be found and from the amount of heat measured one could determine the amount of fusion products that should have been seen ; the answer was calculated to be a staggering thousand billion neutrons per second . |
| 16 | This was proving to be a memorable morning , Maggie accepting a ‘ soft ’ assignment and being volunteered as a charmer . |
| 17 | John was proving to be a good friend as well as brother-in-law . |
| 18 | Sir Walter Scott once said he was honoured to be a mere twig on the Swinton family tree . |
| 19 | In what was claimed to be a complete coincidence , Israel launched Ofek 2 , its second space satellite , on April 3 [ for launch of Ofek 1 in September 1988 see p. 36637 ] . |
| 20 | Kallal had on Sept. 28 revealed further details of what was claimed to be a longstanding fundamentalist conspiracy to seize power [ see pp. 38215 ; 38456 ] . |
| 21 | A further specialized module , scheduled for docking in March 1990 , was intended to complete what was designed to be a multipurpose orbital complex for enhanced research in the fields of astrophysics , space biology , medicine and technology and the investigation of the Earth 's natural resources . |
| 22 | Apple 's Macintosh , on the other hand , was designed to be a closed system with a rigidly defined hardware and software core that all developers could take advantage of . |
| 23 | The privatisation of Jaguar , formerly part of British Leyland , was deemed to be a great success ( although the company ran into difficulties later — refer to Chapter 4 , page 76 ) . |
| 24 | Refreshment facilities on the stand are good attractors , and from the results of the study this was deemed to be a major drawing force . |
| 25 | According to the report Kuomintang troops brought over from the mainland massacred between 18,000 and 28,000 people following what was deemed to be a Communist-inspired rebellion which began on Feb. 28 , 1947 . |
| 26 | Before the 1967 Act , the company acquiring the computer would have no remedy for this innocent misrepresentation , unless it was deemed to be a contractual term , as it would be too late to have the contract set aside . |
| 27 | A limited company client bought a lease from another company for £5,000 , which was deemed to be a fair market price reflecting the differential in the market rent and the actual rent payable . |
| 28 | Although requiring formal approval from the House when it reconvened in January 1993 , the size of the Democratic majority in the new House meant that its adoption was considered to be a foregone conclusion . |
| 29 | To date only 40 tickets have been sold and 50 was considered to be a viable number . |
| 30 | When the SEA was approved it was considered to be a poor substitute for a new Treaty on European Union , but given the opposition of the UK and Denmark it was the best that could be achieved . |