Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would prefer an assistant who was prepared to be directed , not one who would dash away under their own steam . |
| 32 | He was on his way back from Kensal Green to Paddington , on his way back from discovering in Zohra Labrooy at least one friend of Heather 's who was prepared to be an ally of his . |
| 33 | Rather someone who was prepared to be an accomplice to murder . |
| 34 | ‘ This is Miss Huntley who was supposed to be having lunch with Angela today . ’ |
| 35 | The God believed in by Jews , Hindus and Christians , is not like the pagan God , Atlas , who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders . |
| 36 | Barely able to Speak English , adrift in a strange country , Nina Liebermann could find no trace of Mrs Landers , from the West London Synagogue , who was supposed to be at the station . |
| 37 | Taylor was one of the men who was supposed to be responsible for cleaning up Hollywood , but as the sordid details of his life came to light during the murder investigation , Will Hays , knowing he could trust no one in the movie business , placed spies everywhere . |
| 38 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 39 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 40 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 41 | And so this poor woman who was supposed to be asleep , And the problem is that er it 's very difficult to decide whether somebody 's actually unconscious or not if they ca n't move . |
| 42 | Who was supposed to be responsible for the university students ? |
| 43 | No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman , who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller . |
| 44 | The detective constable who was supposed to be guarding him was out of the ward at the time chatting up some nurses . |
| 45 | He thought you 'd give up and go away , as the woman who was supposed to be writing the book did . |
| 46 | Wickham was left in no doubt who was supposed to be in control of the interview . |
| 47 | Even now , I remain uncertain who was supposed to be doing what . |
| 48 | ‘ O Jesus ! ’ said Quigley , suddenly remembering who was supposed to be in charge around here . |
| 49 | In his panegyric on Majorian , Sidonius Apollinaris records the defeat of Chlodio , who was supposed to be the father of Merovech , at the vicus Helena in Artois . |
| 50 | Another thing she could n't step in , and do it over the head with someone who was supposed to be doing on that March . |
| 51 | You know where there was that there was the young girl and there was the old wo , oldish woman who was supposed to be a film star or something ? |
| 52 | er , they were meeting and the lad who was supposed to be at the meeting did n't know what they 'd come to decide on . |
| 53 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |
| 54 | The court held that no offence was committed in that case , since the person at whom the conduct was directed was an undercover policeman who was unlikely to be provoked to violence , and no offence would be committed under the Act either , for the same reasons . |
| 55 | Amabel , torn between sympathy for Linnet who had loved and lost and this poor little jewelled bride who was unlikely to be loved at all , had suffered a severe headache that day . |
| 56 | The devout Buddhist sees the hare who was willing to be roasted alive so the starving brahmin could eat his flesh . |
| 57 | It said the shift maintenance manager , who was likely to be overtired , used spectacles to read small print or figures but did not wear them while replacing the panel . |
| 58 | that he had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , or |
| 59 | Note the defence shown at point 2 above , when the offender has no reason to believe anyone was within hearing or seeing distances who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , e.g. if some people could see him , but they were a long way off . |
| 60 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |