Example sentences of "she was [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was decided to be agreeable and unobtrusive . |
| 2 | She was determined to be less biddable . |
| 3 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 4 | She was bound to be sick before the last race , either then or on the road to the meeting , or on the road home . |
| 5 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
| 6 | She was seen to be afebrile with a tender rigid abdomen on admission to her local hospital . |
| 7 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 8 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 9 | Children being what they are , she was said to be a witch . |
| 10 | She was said to be ‘ strained and suspicious ’ , but insisted she was well and did not need help . |
| 11 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 12 | She was said to be upset because she was too old to use the centre where the party was held in Whitley Bay . |
| 13 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 14 | She was said to be callous , selfish , irresponsible . |
| 15 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 16 | She was said to be stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night , but no longer on a ventilator . |
| 17 | She was said to be ‘ comfortable ’ in Middlesbrough hospital . |
| 18 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 19 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 20 | She was flattered to be asked . |
| 21 | She was flattered to be told that she must be an artist from the way she dressed , until David added ‘ they tell everyone that ’ . |
| 22 | She was discovered to be a nurse by day and an escort girl by night . |
| 23 | Her identity was unknown , but she was believed to be the wife of an El Al employee working in Holland . |
| 24 | Martha , however , was ready to question her grandmother 's notions of colour since , whatever colour she was considered to be , it only seemed to bring her trouble . |
| 25 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 26 | She was considered to be an expert on the disposal of nuclear waste . |
| 27 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |
| 28 | A short , wiry Lebanese in his fifties , Talar lived aboard a partially finished 81-foot yacht , King Edmondo , with a tall , blonde Danish woman who towered over him and was known locally as ‘ Foofoo ’ , as she was thought to be somewhat strange . |
| 29 | She was held to be guilty of theft . |
| 30 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |