Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] were [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 2 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 3 | In Tambov town there were reported to be as few as three Bolsheviks on the very eve of the October Revolution . |
| 4 | Before the present conflict there were thought to be as many as 4,000 elephants in Sri Lanka , though 3,000 is a more likely total . |
| 5 | His decision stated he had made assumptions about the lease which were held to be incorrect , and those errors resulted in the premises being valued on a fundamentally wrong basis . |
| 6 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 7 | At the start of the following week , James Callaghan , then a young Parliamentary Secretary , was among a group of Ministers outside the Cabinet who were summoned to be told of the Cabinet 's decision . |
| 8 | In addition they were perceived to be inefficient , measured in terms of productivity , and also unprofitable , causing a drain on public finances . |
| 9 | In this manner , representations painted in simple style which were meant to be graphically reproduced in a catalogue for a mass audience , shifted into the form of a more elaborately produced and unique art object intended for private tastes . |
| 10 | They can never realize the parental aspiration other than in a superficial way , and they are left not only with the envy of the sex they were meant to be , but also unable to enjoy the sex which they are and the advantages which pertain to it . |
| 11 | added , however , that the offers of accommodation which were expected to be made pursuant to the resolution of the local authority could ‘ be made the subject of fresh proceedings under Order 53 or by way of writ , as the recipients may be advised by counsel . ’ |
| 12 | However , of the significantly reduced number who were found to be poor , 68 per cent were pensioners ( table 5.1 of A. B. Atkison , ‘ Low pay and the cycle of poverty ’ , in Low Pay , ed . |
| 13 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 14 | For a married couple they were reckoned to be between 50 and 60 per cent of post-tax earnings in France , Germany and the United States , about one-third in Britain and Italy , and probably barely one-fifth in Japan . |
| 15 | This time we were determined to be first . |
| 16 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |