Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he had said was meant to be consoling . |
| 2 | The 7-year sentence originally imposed was adjudged to be excessive and reduced to three and a half . |
| 3 | Remembering that what we were experiencing was meant to be enjoyable left our wits spinning like a lawn sprinkler . |
| 4 | An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms . |
| 5 | However , the one thing I was most emphatically told , was that learning to dive was going to be fun . |
| 6 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 7 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 8 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 9 | Then , gripping her lips firmly together , because whatever else she said was bound to be wrong , Ellie continued to stare at Phena in horror and worry . |
| 10 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 11 | He sat up and gave her a quick smile which she supposed was meant to be reassuring . |