Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 2 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 3 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 4 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 5 | When the body of one specimen was first brought from Australia to Britain in 1798 , it was considered to be some kind of taxidermist 's hoax — a mixture of bird and mammal — which , to some extent , it is . |
| 6 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 7 | The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him . |
| 8 | His interest in witchcraft was said to be more than scholarly . |
| 9 | According to reports in the media at that time , the resulting likeness was thought to be that of Abu Talb , a PFLP — GC terrorist who had visited Malta twice before the bombing and was subsequently arrested in Sweden while in possession of large quantities of clothing purchased in Malta . |
| 10 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 11 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 12 | He is n't a rapist but there was bound to be some sexual element . ’ |
| 13 | This was my big chance — on the other end was bound to be some beefcake . |
| 14 | There was bound to be some tension when he teamed with Marlon Brando for Guys and Dolls in 1955 . |
| 15 | It 's just that I have n't had time to think about it and I only thought that with all those shepherds in the area there was bound to be some traffic in illegally slaughtered lamb . |
| 16 | There was bound to be some tension between the governmental bureaucracy and that of the CPSU . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you would have liked to drive down together , but of course he had to deposit Emma at her cousin 's house first , so there was bound to be some delay . ’ |
| 18 | In first time and a better fish , we even joked it was bound to be another twenty ! |
| 19 | ( 6.5 ) was found to be less than the market risk premium ( ) . |
| 20 | She was found to be several months pregnant when she returned and was forced to marry William Wright of Louth , a plumber and glazier , at Haxey on 13 October 1725 . |
| 21 | The alternative was believed to be another Great Crash.The maxim ‘ Waste not , want not , ’ became obsolete too ; ‘ waste not , work not ’ was the new fear . |
| 22 | It was meant to be some kind of joke . |
| 23 | The labour supply would have been reduced by about 5 per cent and the reduction in potential output was estimated to be some 3–4 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 24 | Indeed the implication of the Phillips curve relationship was taken to be that control of demand via fiscal and monetary policies allowed the government to operate the economy at full capacity , yielding high employment but rising prices ; or at lower levels of demand , producing more stable prices but higher unemployment . |
| 25 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 26 | An extreme event was taken to be any event in a geophysical system displaying relatively high variance from the mean . |
| 27 | The time was taken to be half way through the interval incorporating the change — for example , for a child in whom fluid was reported at year 3 but not at years 4 and 5 the fluid survival time was estimated to be 3.5 years . |