Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’ |
| 2 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be . |
| 4 | He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists . |
| 5 | He continually told his parents he was going to be famous but , like legions of other parents before them , they treated his claims with contempt . |
| 6 | I could n't cope with never knowing what days I was going to be there — you had to wait till the rota was up to see which days you 'd be working … |
| 7 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 8 | He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian . |
| 9 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 10 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 11 | In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels . |
| 12 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 13 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 14 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 15 | Pamela Grant wrote : ’ Some tutorials I was sent to were way above my head — I did n't dislike them , but they worried me . ’ |
| 16 | JAMES Gilbey , the man linked with the Princess of Wales , last night laughed off suggestions he was going to be her public escort . |
| 17 | Little thought had been given to the question of what sort of institutions they were going to be : |
| 18 | But then , as RSPB members we were bound to be biased ! |
| 19 | A courageous and independent woman who expressed strong indignation at injustice , her passion for the causes she was committed to was tempered by a sense of mischief and an ability to take herself not too seriously . |
| 20 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 21 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 22 | Further development of the programme and of the role of the Community Mother is possible , though within the present structures there is a danger that it could become a mere extension of the health services , with the Community Mother as a low-waged employee , losing voluntary status , altering motivation and reducing their effectiveness as change agents , becoming as Gill Walt concludes about Community Health Workers in many countries , ‘ just another pair of hands ’ rather than the change agents they were claimed to be . |
| 23 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |
| 24 | There was speculation that Soviet concern could extend to the possibility of missile attacks launched from any of the republics they were known to be located . |