Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Robe was intended to be the boldest and grandest yet — as epic as de Mille but with a serious and intelligent slant on the story of Christ . |
| 32 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 33 | Powered by six NK11As of 2,500hp each this strategic bomber was intended to be based in Hokkaido to carry out attacks on the Continental USA , using radar to ensure target identification at night or in bad weather . |
| 34 | Taken by itself such a statement may not suggest any great alteration from previous doctrine , but it was intended to be and it was . |
| 35 | He questions the validity of such a statement and argues that , in Devlin 's formulation , it was intended to be a statement of empirical fact , or more likely an a priori assumption . |
| 36 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 37 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 38 | The original OEM agreement was intended to be a stopgap while IBM developed its own fault-tolerant machines . |
| 39 | The ‘ real ’ Viking , of course , was intended to be a 50MHz part . |
| 40 | IBM Corp issued a statement last week confirming that it is ‘ expanding the role of AD/Cycle to support application development at the workgroup level ’ — moving to the local area network-based software engineering environment it is already offering for its AIX Unix users — but managed to avoid mentioning what was intended to be the core of AD/Cycle , Repository Manager/MVS at all . |
| 41 | He evidently considered that all pottery of that period was intended to be reduced black or grey , and thought that black burnished were actually coated with bitumen . |
| 42 | There is no doubt , from the terms of the 1259 treaty , that Henry III's was intended to be liege homage : on 4 December 1259 he performed liege homage to St Louis in the garden of his palace on the Ile-de-la-Cité . |
| 43 | 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 ’ . |
| 44 | Sometimes called Scotland 's Disgrace , because it was never finished for lack of funds , this fragment of a memorial to the fallen in the Napoleonic War was intended to be a facsimile of the parthenon . |
| 45 | The recreation of a Colorado militia cavalry unit 's massacre of Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek in November 1864 that climaxed Ralph Nelson 's Soldier Blue ( 1970 ) was intended to be a direct reference to the infamous My Lai massacre of 1968 which led to the court-martial and imprisonment of Lt William Calley . |
| 46 | The status was intended to be enduring until its objectives were achieved , or until it was changed in accordance with the Mandate agreement . |
| 47 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 48 | The CDP itself was intended to be part of that process . |
| 49 | Helsinki was intended to be a step towards further conversations and , like Yalta , its recognition of European borders was not so much a ‘ betrayal ’ of those under Soviet domination as a recognition of hard facts . |
| 50 | Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded . |
| 51 | An expensive film may well be a flop ( Blade Runner cost $27 million yet took under $15 million in North American ( NA ) rentals , which are traditionally supposed to cover negative — that is production — costs for break-even ) ; the fact that it was intended to be profitable puts it in the domain of popular cinema . |
| 52 | Whilst Lakatos did propose what was intended to be a universal criterion of rationality or scientificity , he did not regard this criterion as a consequence of logic alone , or somehow God-given . |
| 53 | This is something of a paradox when one remembers Lord Hailsham 's assurance that the 1981 Act was intended to be a liberalising measure . |
| 54 | The absence of any similar provision in relation to section 69(1) further reinforces my belief that the section 69(1) duty was intended to be exercised , subject to the supervisory jurisdiction of the courts , by the local authority . |
| 55 | It is , however , by no means certain that such a limitation was intended to be introduced by the Court of Appeal . |
| 56 | Although the passages to which I first referred support the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. as to the effect of the judgment of the Court of Appeal , I do not think that reading the judgment overall such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge ’ was intended to be laid down in Cloverbay . |
| 57 | He kissed me ; it was intended to be a sealing sort of kiss to show me that he believed me and that things were going to start being all right , but the kiss altered in the middle and suddenly he pulled himself away . |
| 58 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 59 | The retirement of the Rev William Sleight was intended to be partial . |
| 60 | To decide whether it is successful , we have to know how it was intended to be used and what it was expected to achieve . |