Example sentences of "[conj] was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that the key issue is the extent to which there was ( or was believed to be ) a significant Soviet threat to those supplies , especially in southern Iran . |
| 2 | It was — or was taken to be — a recognition of the important truth that the temporary holder of the office of archbishop stood in the place of , and was answerable to , St Augustine and the other saints of his church , and through them to God . |
| 3 | Not , though , because it was , or was meant to be , a co-operative . |
| 4 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ he said , adding in a tone that was intended to be gentle , but came out wheedling , ‘ Do you find me repulsive ? ’ |
| 6 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 7 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 8 | At the risk of oversimplifying , the new style of labour relations were designed to overcome a high turnover of skilled workers , intense industrial conflict and a lack of motivation and commitment that was said to be the cause of Japan 's reputation as a producer of shoddy goods . |
| 9 | I 've got nothing against keyboards , in fact I love keyboard music , but if you want to play guitar you should buy a guitar that was made to be played like a guitar . |
| 10 | The expert used a ouija board in an attempt to contact the spirit that was believed to be tormenting them . |
| 11 | At the tip of the gull 's bill is a red spot that was believed to be the signal to the chick to peck . |
| 12 | A programming language that was developed to be as close as possible to our own , in order to make the programmers ' work easier . |
| 13 | It was however in the late 1950s that a dog arrived who embodied everything that was thought to be correct , a living blueprint for further development . |
| 14 | A FIVE million year-old piece of bone that was thought to be the collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib , according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley . |
| 15 | The rational expectations hypothesis does not pose a threat to Keynesian theory in the way that was thought to be the case when it first entered into macroeconomics . |
| 16 | IN the midst of a defeat from the world champions , Andy Roxburgh may have found the vindication he was looking for in an exercise that was thought to be without relevance for Scotland . |
| 17 | He picked up the lop-sided contraption that was meant to be his pheasant trap . |
| 18 | He glanced down at Mariana , throwing her a fresh smile that was meant to be encouraging but she was looking straight ahead , eyes fixed on the sand-spit . |
| 19 | The summer that was meant to be a grandiloquent celebration of Spanish glory and its new role in Europe and as a bridge to Latin America is turning sour . |
| 20 | This was obviously the side of the house that was meant to be considered as the frontage , with its six-foot windows 65 and its first-floor parapet and views over formal gardens . |
| 21 | He wished she was n't for ever tapping on the door of the room that was meant to be his , calling out to him when he did n't answer . |
| 22 | It was a letter that was meant to be scrutinized carefully for whispers of concealed meanings . |
| 23 | Cyclosporine is an immunosuppressive drug that was found to be of benefit in a recent double blind study in Crohn 's disease and in an open study conducted in ulcerative colitis . |
| 24 | It will also be of interest to investigate whether N-Oct 3 causes the transcriptional repression of the Herpes simplex virus immediate early genes in neuronal cells that was reported to be mediated by an as yet unidentified neuron-specific Oct-protein(s) [ 33 ] . |
| 25 | So Dublin was given a voice , but no responsibility , in the affairs of Northern Ireland , an arrangement that was expected to be well received by the Catholic community . |
| 26 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 27 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 28 | Admitting that it was ‘ impossible to ignore the fact ’ that the defendant was ‘ in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try ’ and was acknowledged to be ‘ a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life ’ , he took Gandhi gravely to task for his failure to anticipate that violence would be the ‘ inevitable consequence ’ of his acts . |
| 29 | Born near Doncaster , Edward Kirk lost his hearing through a severe illness when aged 2 , and was sent to be educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where his abilities so impressed the headmaster , the great Charles Baker , that he was kept on first as a classroom assistant , thence from 1871 as a teacher . |
| 30 | There was curiosity and wonderment at those features of life that went unremarked by the natives but to foreigners were so eccentric , and so quintessentially British , like porridge and kippers for breakfast , ‘ a peculiar liquid which looked like coffee , tasted like poison and was said to be tea ’ , and bottles of HP Sauce and vinegar on the dining table . |