Example sentences of "this [noun] [was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This committee was likely to be more responsive to lobbying and pressure from parents of children already in ‘ mainstream ’ schools and from the huge workforce in mainstream and specialist education . |
| 2 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 3 | This group was likely to be younger than the first . |
| 4 | Originally this game was due to be released by Elite as Aquablaster , a speedboat shoot-'em-up resembling Buggy Boy ( a previous release of theirs ) in more ways than one . |
| 5 | This man was supposed to be at Scotland Yard . |