Example sentences of "the [noun pl] was [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 2 | Day-to-day management of the groups was expected to be in the hands of experienced Western managers , with board chairmen being Polish nationals . |
| 3 | The writer of the Psalms was believed to be King David . |
| 4 | Another of the casualties was believed to be a boy of nine . |
| 5 | The sound quality of the tapes was found to be unexpectedly high . |
| 6 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 7 | In so far as the assistance of the Americans was seen to be desirable or even imperative against Nazi Germany , he feared that they would exact a heavy price at the expense of Britain 's trade and her links with the Empire . |
| 8 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 9 | In that case the making of a television series by the defendants based on a concept communicated in confidence by the plaintiffs was held to be a breach of confidence . |
| 10 | The incentive for the NPA to participate in the negotiations was thought to be the possibility of gaining the release of some of the many hundreds of its members and supporters currently in prison . |
| 11 | This result is in contrast to one recent study of 11 twin pairs ( 5 monozygotic ) where none of the co-twins was found to be concordant for anorexia nervosa . |