Example sentences of "[that] [pron] was [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 2 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 3 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 4 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 5 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 6 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 7 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 8 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 9 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 10 | ‘ That I was posted to your staff because you asked for me . |
| 11 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 12 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 13 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
| 14 | It was a seemingly endless eight months before the letter arrived announcing Fiona had qualified for a Gold Award and that she was invited to St James 's Palace in London to receive it . |
| 15 | She was uncertain whether , at work , she should be denying the rumour that she was engaged to the head of the Massingham empire , but thought that if Naylor had any strong views on the subject she 'd soon be hearing about them anyway . |
| 16 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 17 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 18 | His moist mouth suckled , and when she gazed down at his rapt , contented face she knew that she was lost to him . |
| 19 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 20 | In February this year , the pain grew so much that she was confined to a wheelchair . |
| 21 | ‘ We conjecture that she was brought to Bartholomew Close on a market-porter 's barrow , and we feel that the journey started not too far away . |
| 22 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 23 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |
| 24 | ‘ It 's quite large for around here , ’ the woman told her , and , even though it was nowhere near as large as Leith 's present flat , nor in the area that she was used to either , she was in a ‘ beggars ca n't be choosers ’ situation . |
| 25 | When he had realized that she was closed to him , he had suggested that she consult an analyst . |
| 26 | Mrs Crump expressed her gratitude with the eloquence of total silence but with a little look which , as Hope noted and saw that it was noted , signalled that she was pierced to the heart . |
| 27 | But it is encapsulated in the phrase that she was subjected to sadistic behaviour over a lengthy period of time which she accepted because she was in love with him . |
| 28 | In my view the trial judge , dealing as he was with a most difficult and distressing case under the necessity to give a decision immediately , did not sufficiently take into account the degree of pressure required to constitute undue influence in the case of a patient in the position of Miss T. I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that there is abundant evidence which would justify this court in coming to the conclusion that she was subjected to the undue influence of her mother which vitiated her decision . |
| 29 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 30 | There followed a scene which so distressed Mrs. Aboody that she was reduced to tears . |