Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] considered [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was considered to be doing well . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 4 | She was considered to be an expert on the disposal of nuclear waste . |
| 5 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 6 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 7 | In contrast , trade unions in France had too little organisational strength in the workplace to be able to inflict major economic losses on the firm and they were considered to be too ideologically radical to be permitted a higher degree of participation . |
| 8 | Jewel Lafontant , the United States co-ordinator for refugee affairs , said on March 16 that the United States would accept half of any new Vietnamese boat people fleeing to Hong Kong , as long as they were considered to be genuine refugees ; only 11 per cent of those as yet screened in the colony had been classified as such . |
| 9 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |
| 10 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 11 | In 1975 there were about 15,000 Breton cows and by 1980 , in spite of an intense conservation programme , it was considered to be an endangered breed numbering perhaps 2,500 cows . |
| 12 | You had to hop to it — it was considered to be a privilege from the sergeant and you had to go in here and strip down , and scrub windows and that sort of thing . |
| 13 | And it was considered to be worthy of treatment . |
| 14 | When the original phase of the development of the airfield as an industrial park was revealed , the provision was for 150 acres , building was not to extend near to the valuable runway , but it was considered to be a deterrent to property sales , so the runway would be removed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the early part of the twentieth century very little was known about the chronology of tribal art ( most of it was considered to be much older than it is ) , and the stylistic differences between the work of various regions had not been examined ; Guillaume himself included Oceanic work under the term tribal art , and felt that it could be extended to include Alaskan art as well . |
| 17 | Policy makers sought to promote national health and welfare and it was considered to be in the nation 's interest to extend child and maternal welfare services . |
| 18 | When the SEA was approved it was considered to be a poor substitute for a new Treaty on European Union , but given the opposition of the UK and Denmark it was the best that could be achieved . |
| 19 | At the time of the competition , he was considered to be the foremost authority on Spanish paintings . |
| 20 | He was considered to be one of the most dangerous of all the fascists and was interned until the end of the Second World War . |
| 21 | A really educated man , if you if anyone had any forms to fill in er it was the postman you invariably went to , because he was considered to be , he could read and write you see . |
| 22 | He was considered to be among the outstanding historians of his time . |
| 23 | He was considered to be a mouthpiece for Bouterse , whom he immediately reinstated as Army Commander-in-Chief . |
| 24 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 25 | We had the potent , theoretical motivator of vast unemployment in the area , and those who were working for us were considered to be the fortunate . |