Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 2 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 3 | It was positively dangerous because it involved the Jews in a game in which they were bound to be discredited . |
| 4 | Perhaps they felt pity and affection for the animals moving through a world by which they were doomed to be destroyed . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the company was called upon often without a word of preparation — to treat on a subject with which he was presumed to be familiar , and so to express himself that what he said could be discussed afterwards . |
| 6 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 7 | The naked body of Diana Travers , his domestic servant , was found drowned at his wife 's Thames-side birthday party , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 8 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 9 | This is a duty to take reasonable care for the visitor 's safety for the purposes for which he was permitted to be there . |
| 10 | Wimpy International Ltd v Warland [ 1988 ] STC 149 had determined that the facts to be considered were : whether an item appeared visually to retain a separate identity ; the degree of permanence with which it had been attached ; the incompleteness of the structure without it ; and the extent to which it was intended to be permanent . |
| 11 | John Strachey , a leading Left Book Club and Communist intellectual , wrote to his schoolfriend Robert Boothby — now a left-wing Tory MP — reassuring him that the left would support a pact with the Tory dissidents , even if the Communist Party was excluded ( which it was bound to be ) . |
| 12 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 13 | The circumstances which imposed on Midland Bank the duty of which it was held to be in breach are not apparent from the report . |
| 14 | The criticisms it was encountering had to do , for instance , with the composition of the Council ( whether or not there was adequate representation of polytechnic teachers or local authorities ) , or with the slow rate at which it was held to be devolving authority to the institutions . |
| 15 | It 's what I was born to be . |
| 16 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 17 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 18 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 19 | Rob said it was appropriate , since that was what she was going to be . |
| 20 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 21 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 22 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |
| 23 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 24 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 25 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |
| 26 | He could fish with Mr Burkett — they had caught a fine pike and two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake — he could let go all those minaretted plans , those fantastical ambitions , and be what he was born to be , a jovial , lazy , loved and loving man , getting by . |
| 27 | When I spoke to Weir , now a sprightly 83 , he still remembered what he was going to be in for when he set sail for a country which had legendary names like Hobbs , Sutcliffe , Woolley , Hendren and many others floating around the various counties . |
| 28 | I asked him what he was going to be . |
| 29 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |
| 30 | and he used to come in here and , and if it , if Y T or , or jobs you know whatever it was going to be , they , they all come in and they knew who Steve is |