Example sentences of "this [was/were] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done to be sure that the constipation was and would be adequately treated . |
| 2 | From the start this was bound to be contentious , for it tied in so obviously with concern about newspaper chains , the power of large circulations and the alleged dangers of a too one-sided party press . |
| 3 | This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis . |
| 4 | This was considered to be due to recognition of semantically similar words to those seen in the course of the experiment . |
| 5 | All of this was admitted to be long term . |
| 6 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 7 | This was held to be reasonable during employment but was construed as being too wide post employment as it would prevent the defendant becoming a medical officer of health in which capacity he could not prejudice the plaintiff 's goodwill . |
| 8 | This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference . |
| 9 | This was thought to be due to the lack of the acid neutralising effect of the saliva . |
| 10 | Eventually this was thought to be precarious and the landowners were bought out by the Bishop 's Castle Railway Defence Trust to which my father had to contribute five hundred pounds . |
| 11 | The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession . |
| 12 | At one time , two-pipe house drainage systems were designed to keep waste water and soil water completely separate until they entered the underground drains and to prevent ‘ drain air ’ entering the house : in Victorian times this was thought to be responsible for all manner of ills . |
| 13 | Two of the longitudinal studies cited showed a temporal decline in toxoplasma seroprevalence ; this was suggested to be due to improved standards of food storage . |
| 14 | This was claimed to be contrary to the right to property guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment . |
| 15 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 16 | This was deemed to be discriminatory according to the European Directive on payment of benefits , and it was replaced with the severe disablement allowance for all claimants in 1984 . |