Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original design of Q magazine was intended to be highly distinctive , to create impact and to celebrate the total quality programme . |
| 2 | The Architects Club , founded in 1791 , was a dining club with limited membership and in no way attempted to be a professional body , but The London Architectural Society , founded in 1806 , was intended to be more representative and instructional . |
| 3 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 4 | Batch 3 was intended to be quite small , in terms of numbers of courses . |
| 5 | In 1697 Peter I sent groups of Russian nobles to Venice , the Dutch republic and England , essentially to study seamanship ; but though their training was intended to be purely technical they none the less provided when they returned home a nucleus of mainly young men with experience of foreign countries and a grasp of foreign languages . |
| 6 | A programming language that was developed to be as close as possible to our own , in order to make the programmers ' work easier . |
| 7 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 8 | She was reported to be deeply depressed and feeling dejected . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Kim was reported to be deeply unpopular within two of the three factions of the DLP . |
| 10 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 11 | The ANC leadership rejected this as a " propaganda ploy " , although by the end of the month the ANC was reported to be under intense diplomatic pressure to attend the " peace summit " . |
| 12 | In addition , measurements of prolonged squeezing were not recorded in the two studies where biofeedback was reported to be as effective as conventional medical treatment . |
| 13 | The overall abstention rate was reported to be as high as 55 per cent of the electorate of 2,200,000 . |
| 14 | The issue was reported to be extremely important to Salinas , who had publicly pledged that he would root out corruption and defend human rights . |
| 15 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 16 | The questionnaire was designed to be largely self-explanatory and relatively quick to complete . |
| 17 | In addition , the coding system used to describe the condition of items was designed to be as simple and unambiguous as possible . |
| 18 | Insiders in the Cope camp claim that the 34-year-old singer was deemed to be too old and uncommercial by Island . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , they could be established at the discretion of the LGB when ‘ distress ’ was deemed to be suitably acute . |
| 20 | Certain information within these main categories was considered to be primarily concerned with monitoring and control activities , and , where this could be specifically identified at this stage , it was coded accordingly ( ie COI ) . |
| 21 | Time after time he had pressed the claims of a workingman candidate on a constituency " , but they had properly chosen the man who was considered to be most suitable for the constituency . |
| 22 | To her female friends her ‘ vanity ’ was considered to be quite justified . |
| 23 | The risk of ethnic conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina was considered to be too great for that republic to qualify for EC recognition . |
| 24 | She eventually died after 65 weeks of successful treatment , with severe cachexia and large bowel obstruction. at the end , her general condition was considered to be too poor to justify a defunctioning colostomy . |
| 25 | This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt . |
| 26 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 27 | At the time , the French-influenced NEAC was considered to be fairly anti-establishment and avant garde . |
| 28 | A probability value of <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant . |
| 29 | A probability value less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant . |
| 30 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |