Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] to " 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 | This was claimed to be contrary to the right to property guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment . |
| 3 | Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge . |
| 4 | His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem , who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis . |
| 9 | This was considered to be due to recognition of semantically similar words to those seen in the course of the experiment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But , as he assured Southey on 21 October , he was resolved to be true to his word , even as he contemplated a future with ‘ her , whom I do not love — but whom by every tie of Reason and Honor I ought to love ’ . |
| 12 | The total for 1990 was expected to be close to a record EC$100,000,000 . |
| 13 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 14 | The move was seen to be due to the normalization of church-state relations following the establishment of the Solidarity-led government . |
| 15 | The protection of wildlife was said to be germane to both China 's economic and ethical development . |
| 16 | This animal was shown to be sensitive to electricity by its behaviour towards batteries placed in its tank . |
| 17 | Whoever it was had to be desperate to be running through fog as thick as this . |
| 18 | Securing a job in Digital , opened in the recession-free days of the early 70s , was thought to be akin to getting a position in the civil service : once in , there forever . |
| 19 | Less than three months after his appointment Chaovalit resigned after a Cabinet colleague , Chalerm Yubamrung ( who was thought to be close to Chatichai ) , accused him of corruption . |
| 20 | This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference . |
| 21 | All the food available to animals and man was thought to be due to the rain which fell from the heavens , the arrival of which was dependent on the will of the god Ba'al . |
| 22 | The evident SOC retreat from the more moderate stance of December was thought to be due to the influence of a hardline faction which feared that the peace plan would open the way to systematic Khmer Rouge infiltration under unwitting UN protection . |
| 23 | This was thought to be due to the lack of the acid neutralising effect of the saliva . |
| 24 | The impasse between the Army and Bhutto increased speculation that President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who was thought to be sympathetic to the Army 's demands , might dismiss the central and provincial governments and call a fresh general election . |
| 25 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 26 | Although France issued no official comment , it was understood to be reluctant to institute any immediate cuts in its nuclear arsenal . |
| 27 | Using a marker perfusion technique , however , the uptake of taurocholate and glycocholate was measured in three infants with cystic fibrosis and was noted to be similar to control subjects . |
| 28 | Duodenal tissue contained more tissue type plasminogen activator than stomach tissue , but the concentration of urokinase type plasminogen activator in duodenal mucosa was found to be similar to that of the stomach ( Table I ) . |
| 29 | Unstimulated PAF actvity of control , Crohn 's disease , and ulcerative colitis epithelial cells was found to be similar to that of lamina propria mononuclear cells when epithelial and mononuclear cells were compared . |
| 30 | The popular movement did not produce the Uprising , but its proven modus operandi was found to be essential to its success . |