Example sentences of "[that] [was/were] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It was a letter that was meant to be scrutinized carefully for whispers of concealed meanings . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 ] . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |