Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 2 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 3 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 4 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 5 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 6 | TV funnygirl Pamela Stephenson demonstrates that she 's determined to be the star of this show . |
| 7 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |
| 8 | And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time . |
| 9 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 10 | Detectives in Colchester expressed concern for Lisa 's safety following her disappearance and revealed that she was known to be upset over personal problems . |
| 11 | Organizations like this are not good at remembering the things you have done well and if , as most of us are , you are at the bottom of the pile , you will find that you are considered to be alternately either the best thing since sliced bread , or a liability to the organization . |
| 12 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 13 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 14 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |
| 15 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 16 | Now that one is bound to be sixty , the the angle at the centre , because that was how we made it . |
| 17 | This means that we are seen to be thinking with our partner rather than thinking against them . |
| 18 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 19 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 20 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |
| 21 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 22 | The growing role of municipalities in providing health care means that there is bound to be more emphasis on primary care . |
| 23 | Five million more motor cars on the roads since 1980 mean that there is bound to be more damage to , theft from and taking of motor vehicles . |
| 24 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 25 | The sort of spatial metaphor implicit in Peer Gynt 's account of himself is also apt in the accounts of self given by Daly , Millett and Frye , except that there is assumed to be a ‘ core ’ . |
| 26 | Industrial sites are so massive , having grown over many years without appropriate control , so that there are bound to be deficiencies and we aim to have them put right as soon as practicable . |
| 27 | Henry II would need to have been an unusually stupid man not to realize that there were bound to be difficult moments in the relationship between him and his heir . |
| 28 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 29 | In March he told Mauriac that there was bound to be a war between the Soviet Union and the " Anglo-Saxons " . |
| 30 | It is clear that to the ancient Egyptian death was not the end that there was thought to be life after death , for which certain provisions and preparations had to be made . |