Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 2 | Loving was meant to be savoured — and we 've got plenty of time . ’ |
| 3 | What he had said was meant to be consoling . |
| 4 | The 7-year sentence originally imposed was adjudged to be excessive and reduced to three and a half . |
| 5 | After this Sutton was spared what he had thought was going to be his third inquisition of the day , the Board meeting . |
| 6 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 7 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 8 | Remembering that what we were experiencing was meant to be enjoyable left our wits spinning like a lawn sprinkler . |
| 9 | Sometimes the fee he paid for joining was expressed to be payment for a consignment of the goods which the scheme was supposed to be marketing . |
| 10 | An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 12 | However , the one thing I was most emphatically told , was that learning to dive was going to be fun . |
| 13 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 14 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 15 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 16 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 17 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 18 | Then , gripping her lips firmly together , because whatever else she said was bound to be wrong , Ellie continued to stare at Phena in horror and worry . |
| 19 | Traditionally form was considered to be a sort of ‘ decorative supplement ’ which provided the entertainment value while the business of instruction ( associated with the content ) went ahead . |
| 20 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 21 | In the past , anything neatly encapsulated was said to be ‘ like The Iliad in a nutshell ’ — a reference to the ancient Greek epic which Roman historian Pliny maintained could be written on a piece of paper small enough to fit in a walnut . |
| 22 | However , if a decision to cancel was going to be made it would have to be made now . |
| 23 | Tool using was thought to be the ‘ key ’ to understanding ourselves . |
| 24 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 25 | He sat up and gave her a quick smile which she supposed was meant to be reassuring . |
| 26 | But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process . |
| 27 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 28 | The vast reservoir of information he had acquired was bursting to be expressed . |