Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 2 | Once the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ found its way into middle-class consciousness , recreation and religion were deemed to be insufficient for coping with this new and alarming aspect of the youth question . |
| 3 | There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing . |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , the implied qualifying words were agreed to be something like ‘ having regard to the position held or the work done ’ , it is submitted that such a qualification would be quite appropriate . |
| 5 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 6 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 7 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 8 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 9 | Acorns and horse chestnuts were collected to be used in the making of munitions and several old pupils , on leave from the front , visited the school . |
| 10 | The sandstone rocks along its western side were known to be porous , but the engineers predicted that the pores would be blocked by silt . |
| 11 | Of course in conformity with ecclesiological principles , schools were expected to be in the Gothic style . |
| 12 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |
| 13 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 14 | These were analogous to the special migrant stations in the United States and Russia with the exception that most of the Tamils were expected to be only temporary migrants . |
| 15 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 16 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 17 | In the first district ( A ) all services provided by its own units were deemed to be " core " by the DGM and were to be supplied within the district " come hell or high water " . |
| 18 | Islington , Southwark , Camden and Hounslow were thought to be in the bag . |
| 19 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 20 | But at the same time , it is clear that as soon as the war was over the purely economic contradictions were bound to be excessively aggravated . |
| 21 | It was widely felt , while the Bill was passing into law , that the programmes of study were going to be inflexibly prescriptive . |
| 22 | From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm . |
| 23 | Kids were reckoned to be more sophisticated , these days . |
| 24 | In this connection , central government and LEAs were urged to be sensitive to the wishes of some groups to have their daughters educated in single-sex schools . |
| 25 | However , shortly afterwards , curio-sellers in Kano were seen to be selling photographs of the man , his wives and followers , and of some of the incidents that had taken place in December . |
| 26 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 27 | This was a grave danger , for anti-Russian counsels were beginning to be heard in Vienna , where the Dreikaiserbund was attacked as a sacrifice of Magyar interests . |
| 28 | No German warships were thought to be in the immediate area and only some four squadrons of fighters and bombers — an estimated 37 planes — were flying from Herdia , Stavanger , and Trondheim . |
| 29 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 30 | Wells calculates that as approximately two-thirds of teenage pregnancies going to full term were reported to be unplanned in a study in South West England , effective contraception therefore has the potential for avoiding 76,000 unwanted teenage pregnancies each year . |