Example sentences of "were [art] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 2 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 3 | St. Peter 's and the adjacent castle site form part of the bull 's head , as these important pagan sites were the first to be rebuilt in the medieval period . |
| 4 | These elections were the first to be held for offices above the lowest administrative level since China became a republic in 1911 and the fist nationwide elections for People 's Congresses since the outset of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 5 | The National Assembly elections were the first to be seriously contested by parties opposed to the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) . |
| 6 | Conventional systems analysis procedures were applied to single applications that were the first to be computerised in the organisation . |
| 7 | The silos were the first to be rebuilt with completion in 1950 ready for the harvest of that year . |
| 8 | These cars were the last to be constructed by English Electric for Blackpool , and the last trams that they built in their East Works , now used by British Aerospace . |
| 9 | Cheng and Teo were the last to be released of 22 people detained in 1987 for their involvement in the " conspiracy " [ see p. 35462 ] . |
| 10 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |