Example sentences of "to [be] [noun pl] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 2 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 3 | In the lamina propria about 90% of the L1 + cells taken to be granulocytes were by specific marker eosinophil cationic protein shown to be eosinophilic granulocytes ( median number of EG2 + cells examined per specimen : 120 , range 9–225 ; n=7 ) . |
| 4 | When twelve women who professed to be virgins were found , only two would swear an oath to that effect , but the executors decided to take the women 's word for it . |
| 5 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |