Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were this to be the case then its limited appeal would be even further reduced . |
| 2 | Were this to be the case then the party would almost certainly adopt the essentials of the Establishment perspective — the more so since this perspective is keenly attentive to many of the contemporary concerns of the New Right . |
| 3 | ‘ In the last financial year we were delighted to be the second most profitable group in the network , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | ‘ In the financial year just completed we were delighted to be the second most profitable group in the network , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | Andy Norman and Ron had frequently told me about athletes who were content to be the British number one , to make the team . |
| 6 | In the story , Cain and Abel were supposed to be the sons of Adam and Eve . |
| 7 | Originally , the Six Clerks were supposed to be the attorneys in court of the parties to a Chancery suit . |
| 8 | Sleek , dramatic good looks were supposed to be the exclusive property of the more fashionable marques . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought you were supposed to be the one who always had all the answers . ’ |
| 10 | They had cost her uncle just a few cents each and were supposed to be the plates and bowls Chinese coolies ate their rice from while they sat with their rickshaws , waiting for trade , in old Pekin . |
| 11 | And even though they were supposed to be the biggest and gravest army in the world they were frightened to get off the So what , who was the first person who stepped on land ? |
| 12 | A second , informal survey of major underwriters of credit insurance risk supported recent Trade Indemnity figures and indicated that third quarter 1991 bad debts were likely to be the worst ever . |
| 13 | People living in the houses were also less likely to be in the company of individuals who had competing needs to their own ; clients living in staffed houses were likely to be the only service user in the room for 63 per cent of the time ( and mostly with just one other for the remainder ) , compared with 42 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses , 33 per cent in ordinary hospital wards and 27 per cent in special units . |
| 14 | The confusion arose between the subsequent press briefings given by the hon. and learned Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and the Prime Minister 's statements about what were likely to be the maximum number of warheads on the Trident programme . |
| 15 | The meeting approved the creation of a US$10,000 million development fund for Arab countries which had supported the coalition in the Gulf war and which had suffered economic damage from the war ; Egypt and Syria were likely to be the main beneficiaries . |
| 16 | Though nothing was more obvious to the naked eye than that the members of craft unions were likely to be the best , the most intelligent , the most skilled workers , the myth of the work-shy outsider exploiting simple-minded but basically sturdy operatives was indestructible . |
| 17 | Many , like myself , thought we were unlucky to be the victims of Sidcombe 's third victory of the season . |
| 18 | Scotland 's European champion was due to be the first of the team 's medal hopes in action , but lack of entries forced the organisers to abandon the heats . |
| 19 | Was this to be the price of winning his friends ' help ? |
| 20 | The SSL was delighted to be the recipient of the 1990 Jason Farradane Award of the Institute of Information Scientists ‘ because of the importance of this development for Scotland , and the significant progress it marks in the information community ’ . |
| 21 | Sean was smug to be the source of information but somehow disconcerted that Benny did n't get embarrassed as he had thought she would . |
| 22 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 23 | The enemy in the contra case was supposed to be the Sandinistas ; but North 's enemies were evidently domestic , political and unarmed , except with bothersome statutes . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought this was supposed to be the goody , goody girl I live next door to , ’ said one wide-eyed recording chief as he watched Kylie cavort provocatively below him . |
| 25 | In his early thirties , he was supposed to be the coming man at SIS . |
| 26 | Most serious of all , chaos blighted both policy and politics as what was supposed to be the creative tension with the Treasury deteriorated into petty demarcations and empire-building . |
| 27 | It was supposed to be the parched Wild West , with dust spraying up from the horses ' hooves and the wheels . |
| 28 | These iterations should start coming off the line in the first quarter , another delay for what was supposed to be the standard Viking . |
| 29 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 30 | He was supposed to be the paper 's foreign correspondent but instead of filing everyday reports like the other journalists he became obsessed with chasing after so-called spies and spent most of the time commuting between East and West Germany hoping to land the big scoop . ’ |