Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disparity between different sized companies mentioned opposite was found to be more pronounced in the software and services sector than for hardware companies . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived , he also was found to be too young . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 18 | Perhaps today was going to be all right after all . |
| 19 | Their first encounter today was going to be a tense and difficult one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | CONVICTED wife-killer James Rudman today was expected to be extradited to Britain from the Irish Republic . |
| 23 | One of the waterwheels that drove machinery here was said to be the biggest in England . |
| 24 | The objection here was held to be irrelevant . |
| 25 | Emphasis should be — and surely was intended to be — on the fact of breakdown , and not on the formal technicalities of establishing such breakdown . |
| 26 | And I was determined that everywhere although not absolutely superbly glittering , everywhere was going to be tidy before I left . |
| 27 | ‘ I should think he looked around for something heavy that would take glue , and with all that junk lying around there was bound to be something . |
| 28 | Over a period some mistakes had been made and several members of the Committee were not in full agreement , but if ideas and plans were to be achieved there was bound to be hard talking at Meetings . |
| 29 | In November 1985 , when he had heard there was going to be another Israeli shipment to Iran , he called North . |
| 30 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |