Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although the dramatic progress , in terms of productivity , made by Jaguar since privatisation is acknowledged , critics claim that it was bound to be a takeover candidate before too long , as it was a small player in a market which was becoming increasingly concentrated . |
| 2 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 3 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 4 | It was getting to be a sore point . |
| 5 | Whatever the book 's faults might be , it was seen to be an original contribution of power , and that a new force in Christian thinking had appeared among the Churches in England . |
| 6 | In clarifying our confidence in another 's consciousness , human or non-human , it was seen to be an error of Griffin 's to pose the problem in terms of putting ourselves into another 's ‘ skin' or to experience their ‘ subjective feelings ’ ( 1984 : 1 , above ) . |
| 7 | Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) . |
| 8 | In the tenth century it was imagined to be an immemorial tradition that archbishops wishing to receive from the pope the ‘ pallium ’ , the scarf of lambs ' wool which set them apart as metropolitans and gave them their status over the rest of the bishops , should come to Rome in person to receive it . |
| 9 | It was believed to be a repeat of an earlier attempt in 1991 to seal off the Jaffna peninsula , the LTTE 's principal base [ see also pp. 38392 ; 38439 ] . |
| 10 | Moreover , it was understood to be a crime which was entirely foreign to the national character , and in one of its earliest references to the affair The Times ( 7 November 1862 ) registered the compulsive feeling that the new crime was ‘ un-British ’ : ‘ When the outrages first commenced , it was doubted whether the crime was not of foreign importation … but the ruffians who have been arrested arc of pure English breed . ’ |
| 11 | In the version drawn in 1921 by Sir Arnold Plant ( then a student at the School ) , the beaver was selected to symbolize the School because ‘ it was understood to be an industrious animal with social habits ’ . |
| 12 | This stretch of canal holds a large head of fish but there are also a lot of carp and it was decided to be an unfair venue . |
| 13 | It was planned to be an important branch , conveying iron ore from the strata at Apley and Donington , but this traffic never materialised owing to the vast amount of iron ore deposits found at Santon , near Scunthorpe . |
| 14 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 15 | Frequently , a claim by an employer based on breach of confidence has failed as it was perceived to be an attempt to prevent the employee from working in the same field by offering his skill to another employer . |
| 16 | It was said to be a soup-to-nuts A-to-Z kind of thing and the software vendors rejected it out of hand as offering them nothing . |
| 17 | It was said to be a sentence he 'll carry for the rest of his life . |
| 18 | As part of the Guild of St George it was intended to be a means of bringing craftsmen into contact with works of art , especially of the Middle Ages , early Italian Renaissance and Gothic revival , and with objects of natural beauty . |
| 19 | He questions the validity of such a statement and argues that , in Devlin 's formulation , it was intended to be a statement of empirical fact , or more likely an a priori assumption . |
| 20 | He kissed me ; it was intended to be a sealing sort of kiss to show me that he believed me and that things were going to start being all right , but the kiss altered in the middle and suddenly he pulled himself away . |
| 21 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 22 | The sacking of MacArthur was a public sacking , it was intended to be a public humiliation of MacArthur , and that 's what it was . |
| 23 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 24 | It was designed to be a troop transport plane . |
| 25 | It was designed to be a communication between experts , discussing technical issues within their own subject field and hence was not intended for ’ public consumption ’ . |
| 26 | Primarily it was designed to be an animal fountain for the herds of beasts that sauntered around on market day . |
| 27 | And signature tune if that 's what you like to call it was Dare to be a Daniel , Dare to Pass a Public House and Dare to Make it Known . |
| 28 | For a child of five this was a terrifying experience , although it was meant to be a birthday treat . |
| 29 | He glanced up at Doyle to see if it was meant to be a joke , but Doyle was not smiling . |
| 30 | ‘ It was meant to be a supportive stake , ’ its chairman Jim Davies says . |