Example sentences of "was [verb] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was intended to be the first part of a lengthy tramway to Sutton and beyond . |
| 32 | The Robe was intended to be the boldest and grandest yet — as epic as de Mille but with a serious and intelligent slant on the story of Christ . |
| 33 | IBM Corp issued a statement last week confirming that it is ‘ expanding the role of AD/Cycle to support application development at the workgroup level ’ — moving to the local area network-based software engineering environment it is already offering for its AIX Unix users — but managed to avoid mentioning what was intended to be the core of AD/Cycle , Repository Manager/MVS at all . |
| 34 | The weight or level of materiality attached to the initial consultative draft was intended to be the minimum possible , contrary to the sentiments expressed in letter . |
| 35 | It was intended to be the National Theatre of the provinces , attracting top actors and directors . |
| 36 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 37 | If fusion was really taking place , then these products should be found and from the amount of heat measured one could determine the amount of fusion products that should have been seen ; the answer was calculated to be a staggering thousand billion neutrons per second . |
| 38 | One group was designated to be the subjects , the other experimenters . |
| 39 | Once the spirochaete which caused syphilis had been identified and Wassermann had invented the diagnostic reaction which perpetuates his name , the condition called general paralysis of the insane was recognized to be the result of a long-lasting infection . |
| 40 | Early in 1913 Canudo , another friend of Apollinaire 's , founded a review called Montjoie which was recognized to be an Orphist mouthpiece , while Apollinaire expanded and developed his ideas on the new style in L'Intransigeant and particularly in Les Soirees de Paris . |
| 41 | The lanky Ormondroyd was proving to be a nuisance and when he chested the ball down to Thompson he was unlucky to see his shot flash wide . |
| 42 | John was proving to be a good friend as well as brother-in-law . |
| 43 | Meanwhile the Church of England was proving to be a nuisance to the government . |
| 44 | This was proving to be a stroll . |
| 45 | This was proving to be a memorable morning , Maggie accepting a ‘ soft ’ assignment and being volunteered as a charmer . |
| 46 | Shortly after Gould 's publication of this information , Darwin moved to London to be closer to what was proving to be a hotbed of scientific activity . |
| 47 | This discussion was proving to be a disaster . |
| 48 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 49 | Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem ; the successful Russian Revolution was not long passed , and although the police were controlling mass demonstrations of the unemployed , using violence on occasion , they too had gone on strike in August 1918 . |
| 50 | Sir Walter Scott once said he was honoured to be a mere twig on the Swinton family tree . |
| 51 | In what was claimed to be a complete coincidence , Israel launched Ofek 2 , its second space satellite , on April 3 [ for launch of Ofek 1 in September 1988 see p. 36637 ] . |
| 52 | Kallal had on Sept. 28 revealed further details of what was claimed to be a longstanding fundamentalist conspiracy to seize power [ see pp. 38215 ; 38456 ] . |
| 53 | The sand — housed in what was claimed to be a mock-up of a nuclear flask [ two old oil drums sporting radiation stickers and lined with plastic bags ] — had been collected by Greenpeace from beaches near Sellafield . |
| 54 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 55 | The hard-top — wife and mistress combined in one body — was claimed to be the most successful innovation the industry had made in years . |
| 56 | The Government have already scrapped legislation introduced by previous Conservative Governments , but it is extremely unusual , if not unique , for them to provide , in the Queen 's Speech , for the abolition of what was claimed to be the flagship of their opening programme . |
| 57 | Richard Vines was its librarian , but he was removed from office after six years and , after he had openly burned his certificate of membership of the society , he was voted to be a non-member . |
| 58 | Early in 1568 he left Cambridge for London , where he was reported to be a preacher and schoolmaster , attending the Italian Protestant church , and married to Anne , with one son , Isaac , and two daughters ( one perhaps called Judith ) . |
| 59 | The announcement , which followed the release on Dec. 13 of six remaining hostages abducted in July 1991 , was reported to be a prelude to formal talks between the ULFA and the government . |
| 60 | In what was reported to be the first visit by an Irish Prime Minister to Northern Ireland for 25 years , Charles Haughey , the Taoiseach , visited Belfast on April 11 . |