Example sentences of "was [verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 2 | A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe . |
| 3 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 4 | The date to remember is Friday , July 17 , when I was honoured to be present at its rebirth , so to speak . |
| 5 | This was claimed to be contrary to the right to property guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment . |
| 6 | Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge . |
| 7 | Mr Major was reported to be resolute after Mr Lamont 's attack . |
| 8 | Mr Major was reported to be resolute after Mr Lamont 's attack . |
| 9 | Des Burke , Burmin 's Managing Director , was reported to be confident of dispelling opposition : ‘ Of course there are people jumping up and down … |
| 10 | Hastings , at least , was reported to be delighted with the turn of events . |
| 11 | Hastings , at least , was reported to be delighted with the turn of events . |
| 12 | The Turkish military was reported to be concerned over the presence of foreign troops on Turkish territory , and also over the prospect of a Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq . |
| 13 | His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem , who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction . |
| 14 | Moreover , King Hassan was reported to be ambivalent about the Shah . |
| 15 | The B-2 " Stealth " bomber , which was designed to be invisible to enemy radar , and which had made its maiden flight on July 17 , 1989 [ see p. 36808 ] , continued to arouse controversy during this period , due to its increasing cost ( estimated in February 1990 at $530,000,000 per aircraft ) , and to technical problems . |
| 16 | The line was uprated to be capable of manufacturing a complete barrier five layer plastic tube and is currently supplying the free standing Colgate tube recently launched in the UK . ’ |
| 17 | In a sense , repressing all that was deemed to be inimical to the regime was the " easy " part of the task of consolidating the result of the Civil War . |
| 18 | Classical literature tells us that through the centuries love was deemed to be compatible with a good marriage and in the Middle Ages canon law , by basing the validity of marriage on free consent , upheld love as a precursor of the union . |
| 19 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 20 | Mr Bond was deemed to be insolvent at the time the bankruptcy judgment was entered against him and the bankruptcy notice was served — ‘ about three weeks ago ’ — but Mr Bond may have been insolvent before that time . |
| 21 | This was an attempt by a local authority to object to the level of grant it was deemed to be entitled to from the central government . |
| 22 | This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis . |
| 23 | This was considered to be due to recognition of semantically similar words to those seen in the course of the experiment . |
| 24 | which can yield 2 tonnes/hectare year of dry wood even on unfertilised , very dry soil , was considered to be crucial for upgrading the environment as a whole . |
| 25 | Later this choice was considered to be pagan by the Church because of the festivities traditionally associated with it . |
| 26 | Back in the 1960s , and still to some extent in 1973 when the NI began , India was considered to be ripe for ruin . |
| 27 | This exclusion clause was considered to be unreasonable on the basis of the following factors . |
| 28 | On the grounds of epidemiologic studies , based on specific serum antibodies , H pylori was considered to be uncommon in childhood and to increase progressively with age . |
| 29 | Net fluid transport was considered to be equal to changes in the intestinal weight , which was continuously monitored by connecting the force transducer to a Grass polygraph . |
| 30 | And it was considered to be worthy of treatment . |