Example sentences of "were [verb] to be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Series were deemed to be longer plays , broken down into episodes for convenience of presentation . |
| 2 | Reaction times to photographs of faces in a same-different task were reported to be faster for left than for right hemifield presentation by Geffen , Bradshaw and Wallace ( 1971 ) , Rizzolatti , Umilta and Berlucchi ( 1971 ) , Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta ( 1974 ) and St John ( 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Black was predominant because black was what people preferred , but the so-called ancient cattle of Wales included every conceivable colour : very bright orange-red , yellow dun ( dominant to black ) in Montgomery , blue around Llanfair Caereiniou ( blues were said to be better milkers than black , possibly because of some Shorthorn blood in the past ) , a recessive mousy colour popular in the Lleyn peninsula , white with coloured points , solid colours and pies and brindles , belts and linebacks . |
| 4 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 5 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 6 | Adduct levels were found to be higher in smokers than non-smokers and adduct levels were significantly higher after truncal vagotomy and drainage than after highly selective vagotomy . |
| 7 | Information leakages were found to be smaller in chemicals than in other sectors , and for new process development decisions in virtually all of the industries in the sample ( see Mansfield et al. , |
| 8 | The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine . |
| 9 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 10 | Antral crypts were estimated to be longer than gastric body crypts . |