Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous generations were brought up in an age when it was thought not ‘ respectable ’ — especially for women — to enjoy sex ; and men and women over 50 or so were expected to be together ‘ for companionship ’ , to the exclusion of any sexual activity . |
| 2 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 3 | Her vast deposits were in 1880 still largely unexplored ; those of Silesia alone were believed to be even greater than the huge fields already opened in Great Britain . |
| 4 | The disparity between different sized companies mentioned opposite was found to be more pronounced in the software and services sector than for hardware companies . |
| 5 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 6 | Other students joined in and before long , quite spontaneously , a crowd of some 200 or so was found to be singing lustily , with Leonard as the ecstatic , unselfconscious conductor . |
| 7 | Mistaken biological beliefs , such that the male alone was thought to be a full human being , underlay western culture , making this seem the more plausible . |
| 8 | Where normality for each group separately was found to be appropriate by using probability plots a two sample t test was used to compare the mean values of each variable of interest between the regulated and random groups . |
| 9 | Originally , the Sandie Shaw A-side was going to be ‘ I Do n't Owe You Anything ’ but the revived freshness of ‘ Hand In Glove ’ virtually powered its way onto the A-side . |
| 10 | Taking a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l as being dangerous , it was found that of the total number of solutions sampled from unions in Phase 1 , Phase 2 ( standard ) and Phase 3 ( CRP ) , 14.7% , 18.2% and 25.6% respectively were found to be dangerous . |
| 11 | IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . |
| 12 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 13 | Er I , I suppose yes they probably were expected to be in by a definite time . |
| 14 | The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken . |
| 15 | I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived , he also was found to be too young . |
| 16 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 17 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 18 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 19 | They really were going to be in pictures . |
| 20 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 21 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 22 | would try and get a lot more searching questions about how the curriculum was being developed in the school , what exactly was happening , what really was going to be the attitude of the Head to RBL in the future … |
| 23 | Now that the two main parts had been recast , there really was going to be a lot to do , and the company waved goodbye to their hopes of a cushy fortnight . |
| 24 | The waters from here were reputed to be a certain cure for ‘ the itch ’ , as well as curing dogs of the mange . |
| 25 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 26 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 27 | Perhaps today was going to be all right after all . |
| 28 | Their first encounter today was going to be a tense and difficult one . |
| 29 | If what Robert had seen , to date , of the school 's cricket was anything to go by , today was going to be an exhausting experience . |
| 30 | The Judge held the air of someone very world-weary , and this was accurate to some extent , as he had just re-read the case notes , and sensed today was going to be another long day . |