Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [be] [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 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 7 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 8 | Little thought had been given to the question of what sort of institutions they were going to be : |
| 9 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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' ’ ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |