Example sentences of "[that] was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ he said , adding in a tone that was intended to be gentle , but came out wheedling , ‘ Do you find me repulsive ? ’ |
| 3 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be . |
| 7 | Originally titled ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion Featuring A Choice Collection Of Tomes , Songs , Odes And Anthems From The Most Eminent Authors In The United States ’ , this is the record that was struggling to be heard inside the more studio-constricted ‘ Money Maker ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The expert used a ouija board in an attempt to contact the spirit that was believed to be tormenting them . |
| 10 | At the tip of the gull 's bill is a red spot that was believed to be the signal to the chick to peck . |
| 11 | A programming language that was developed to be as close as possible to our own , in order to make the programmers ' work easier . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He picked up the lop-sided contraption that was meant to be his pheasant trap . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was a letter that was meant to be scrutinized carefully for whispers of concealed meanings . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The whole Arab League peace plan , he said in effect , belonged to an existing order that was going to be swept away . |
| 27 | I was the person who was supposed to go to every city before David got there to make sure that everything was in order , that the hall that was going to be performed in had all the facilities that were required — and the hotels — I had to check all of that . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted something that was going to be failsafe , something that would n't , after two years of touring , collapse on me . |
| 29 | I think Mr you 've anticipated a , a , a a statement that was going to be given shortly by Mr |
| 30 | We wanted to build a pyramid that was going to be slightly bigger than the biggest pyramid in Egypt . |