Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | From quite an early age I was expected to be somewhere around . |
| 32 | ‘ When I was at home , I was expected to be submissive , obedient and totally dependent on my parents . |
| 33 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 34 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 35 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 36 | I was meant to be meeting someone too . ’ |
| 37 | Hell , I was meant to be looking after him and then you both started talking in the room next to mine . |
| 38 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 39 | The magistrate did not consider a barrack changing-room to be a proper address , and so I was ordered to be confined in a bail hostel in Camden Town while social reports were completed . |
| 40 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 41 | ‘ I was hired to be social , ’ Karen says . |
| 42 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 43 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 44 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 45 | I was allowed to be her friend . |
| 46 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 47 | I mean , he is n't run of the mill , is he ? … and I thought any lady friend of his was bound to be unusual . ’ |
| 48 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
| 49 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 50 | Cases included 7,000 tons of ash from a Berlin power plant which was sent to be mixed with cement but found to be radioactive . |
| 51 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 52 | ‘ The stories of my people go beyond oppression and the degeneration of society , ’ Mr McKay added , citing recent occasions in Canada when aboriginal communities have asserted their rights over ancestral land which was destined to be taken over by local developers . |
| 53 | It was an arguably effective method of achieving both killing and disposal of the body — probably ensuring that the perpetrator remained undetected — to load the victim into an escape pod which was destined to be destroyed as soon as it was tracked by any of the platforms in orbit . |
| 54 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 55 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 56 | There was a firm 6×4 cm swelling to the right of the midline scar in the adbomen which was presumed to be the recurrent tumour . |
| 57 | This case dealt with a life interest in possession overseas trust which was presumed to be governed by a trust law similar to that in the United Kingdom ( otherwise the decision would have been different ( see Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1931 ) 15 TC 693 ) ) . |
| 58 | In the Reich the various German patriotic societies were designed to combat ‘ Jewish influence ’ , which was seen to be both ethnically alien and racially inferior , and also to be at the very heart of the economic change that at once afflicted and enriched German society . |
| 59 | But students and many of their working counterparts no longer trusted the Party , which was seen to be ‘ feathering its own nest ’ . |
| 60 | These words were taken to exclude the possibility of an undisclosed principal , a position which was argued to be also in accordance with commercial reality and expectations . |