Example sentences of "this [noun] were [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers . |
| 2 | Of these 30 dismissals those which came before the Industrial Tribunal in this case were found to be unfair . |
| 3 | Only letter strings which appeared in this dictionary were considered to be correct . |
| 4 | Shop assistants in this period were expected to be of " respectable " appearance and speech . |
| 5 | A further 19 per cent of this sample were judged to be borderline cases . |
| 6 | A fair number of towns of this rank were reputed to be boroughs , though incorporation was something of a rarity and might well depend on special circumstances : Rye , Winchelsea and Hastings , for example , were Cinque Ports . |
| 7 | Finance was a constant source of tension within the city , and increasingly the city 's problems in this area were seen to be the fault of the Poles . |
| 8 | This in turn reduced the maintenance costs of removing and replacing 200 flying hour cassettes from their positions , which by this time were required to be near the tail of the aircraft in order that they might have the maximum chance of surviving impact forces in a crash . |