Example sentences of "[was/were] originally [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such redemption annuities were originally intended to be payable till 1996 , but they were ended by the Finance Act 1977 , and the final payments ( of double the normal sum ) were made on 1 October 1977 . |
| 2 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 3 | The building blocks of matter are the atoms which were originally thought to be indivisible . |
| 4 | The skeleton was originally thought to be female and was called the ‘ Red Lady of Paviland ’ because the bones had been dyed with the red ochre of a ritual burial . |
| 5 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 6 | This pathway was originally thought to be important only in those tissues lacking ADH , such as the heart , but a recent study has shown in vivo formation of FAEEs in the liver and pancreas during ethanol exposure . |