Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistaken biological beliefs , such that the male alone was thought to be a full human being , underlay western culture , making this seem the more plausible . |
| 2 | IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . |
| 3 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 4 | Now that the two main parts had been recast , there really was going to be a lot to do , and the company waved goodbye to their hopes of a cushy fortnight . |
| 5 | would try and get a lot more searching questions about how the curriculum was being developed in the school , what exactly was happening , what really was going to be the attitude of the Head to RBL in the future … |
| 6 | Their first encounter today was going to be a tense and difficult one . |
| 7 | If what Robert had seen , to date , of the school 's cricket was anything to go by , today was going to be an exhausting experience . |
| 8 | One of the waterwheels that drove machinery here was said to be the biggest in England . |
| 9 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 10 | But later he had talked to her and she had told him how she , too , wanted , indeed was determined to be an actress one day , and he had looked quite serious , and offered to take her to watch a rehearsal and meet the cast . |
| 11 | A second version of ‘ La Danse ’ painted in 1932 which until very recently was thought to be the first was donated by Matisse to the Petit Palais in Paris in 1936 . |
| 12 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |