Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 2 | An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand . |
| 3 | Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round . |
| 4 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom , in particular , had an interest in protesting the closure of New Zealand 's ports to ships which had not been confirmed to be neither nuclear armed nor propelled . |
| 6 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 7 | This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) . |
| 8 | As the plaintiff had not been shown to be guilty of contributory negligence , he was entitled to recover damages , on the grounds of negligence . |
| 9 | Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time . |
| 10 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 11 | In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 12 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 13 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 14 | Eventually , of course , the dug-outs return with the news that prices and demand had increased on other islands also and that what had erroneously been considered to be a series of relative price and demand shifts turned out to have affected all islands equally . |
| 15 | The risk of postoperative infections in patients in which a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease had not been established preoperatively had also been shown to be high . |
| 16 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 17 | Since the late eighteenth century , there had developed the ‘ perfectionist doctrine ’ which claimed that ‘ government of the people by the people ’ was most appropriate , but according to Bryce , this had now been shown to be wrong . |
| 18 | As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge . |
| 19 | Next it was Ethel to make difficulties , because she had n't been asked to be a bridesmaid . |
| 20 | This last task , in fact , had earlier been found to be performed better by the left hand of neurologically intact right and left handers ( Kimura and Vanderwolf 1970 ) . |
| 21 | Thomas Baker of Fobbing in Essex , whose resistance to the poll tax was the earliest recorded sign of revolt , had indeed been appointed to be village collector of the tax ( 11 , p.205 ) , but instead led the opposition to it . |
| 22 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 23 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 24 | Humphrey of Bassingbourn 's wood of Bamfield , and the dowager Countess of Pembroke 's manor of Thorpe Waterville had likewise been adjudged to be part of the forest of Rockingham ; the Prior of Kenilworth complained that his wood of Wolverton , pertaining to his manor of Salford Priors in Warwickshire , and Robert Burdet that his wood of Arrow had been re-afforested as part of the forest of Feckenham . |
| 25 | To this end , two companies , Hoechst , whose product Trental ( oxpentifylline ) had recently been shown to be useful in the treatment of chronic venous ulceration , and Perstorp Pharma whose new product , Iodosorb ointment ( cadexomer iodine ) , useful in the treatment of infected ulcers , had recently been promoted , were contacted . |
| 26 | On April 13 the then Oil Minister , Rashid al Amiri , announced that the time needed to extinguish oil fires started by Iraq had recently been estimated to be seven months rather than 24 months [ see also p. 38119 ] . |
| 27 | One forgot in the early enthusiasm that the rotors had never been intended to be a ship 's prime movers , too much was expected of them . |