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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |