Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that the key issue is the extent to which there was ( or was believed to be ) a significant Soviet threat to those supplies , especially in southern Iran . |
| 2 | It was — or was taken to be — a recognition of the important truth that the temporary holder of the office of archbishop stood in the place of , and was answerable to , St Augustine and the other saints of his church , and through them to God . |
| 3 | Not , though , because it was , or was meant to be , a co-operative . |
| 4 | And somewhere inside it , was the Presley hoard , or was going to be real shortly . |
| 5 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 6 | Admitting that it was ‘ impossible to ignore the fact ’ that the defendant was ‘ in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try ’ and was acknowledged to be ‘ a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life ’ , he took Gandhi gravely to task for his failure to anticipate that violence would be the ‘ inevitable consequence ’ of his acts . |
| 7 | Born near Doncaster , Edward Kirk lost his hearing through a severe illness when aged 2 , and was sent to be educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where his abilities so impressed the headmaster , the great Charles Baker , that he was kept on first as a classroom assistant , thence from 1871 as a teacher . |
| 8 | There was curiosity and wonderment at those features of life that went unremarked by the natives but to foreigners were so eccentric , and so quintessentially British , like porridge and kippers for breakfast , ‘ a peculiar liquid which looked like coffee , tasted like poison and was said to be tea ’ , and bottles of HP Sauce and vinegar on the dining table . |
| 9 | A roundabout was built at the top of Anerley Hill to provide a run-round loop and was said to be located partly in five different boroughs . |
| 10 | He was tall , good-looking and fast-talking , and was said to be a first-class shit . |
| 11 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 12 | A referendum to dissolve parliament was held and was said to be accepted by 99.9 per cent of the people . |
| 13 | Okudaira was still at large and was said to be a member of the Japanese Red Army underground group . |
| 14 | Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] . |
| 15 | Ms Gibson was taken to Hammersmith police station and was said to be too distraught to be interviewed , a CID spokesman said . |
| 16 | Steve Platt finds that the people who sold their votes are not necessarily Labour supporters ; Missing millions Did vanishing voters tip the electoral scales , asks Jolyon Jenkins ; Culture of contentment The western world seems set on a course that will lead to great violence in our cities , says J K Galbraith ; On the clothes line The Paris fashion industry employs illegal immigrants at knock-down wages , reports Nyta Mann ; Symbolic injustice The importance of the Rodney King case is that injustice was done , and was seen to be done , says Alexander Cockburn |
| 17 | He is an extremely nice man and was seen to be a successful and popular president , although his name was linked to allegations that certain transactions were not totally above board . |
| 18 | According to Mrs Whitehouse , there was a time not so long ago when the Church was , and was seen to be , the defender of both public and private morality . |
| 19 | Owen 's own first chosen vehicle , the co-operative community , had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable . |
| 20 | The growth of the Welfare State was seen to have developed diseconomies of scale and was seen to be securing staff interests rather than the public 's . |
| 21 | It was important that employee information remained secure , and was seen to be so . |
| 22 | Phil Wells , 48 , vanished from Heathrow Airport following the theft of the money in 1989 and was believed to be living somewhere in Florida , or possibly dead . |
| 23 | Noble had been in hiding since his participation in the December 1989 coup attempt against the Aquino government — the most serious to date — and was believed to be closely associated with the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , the dissident movement within the military led by the now fugitive colonel , Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan . |
| 24 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 25 | A former Supreme Court Justice and broad supporter of Aquino , he announced his candidacy on Nov. 22 , and was believed to be backed by several powerful corporations . |
| 26 | The fire , at Cragside , was in a first floor bedroom and was believed to be caused by electrical equipment overheating . |
| 27 | Later in the race McCallen fell off at Church Corner , Portrush , but was unhurt and was hoping to be able to take part in the opening Superbike race which followed the 250cc . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The renewal , after the dreary state of the early years of the century , seemed a miracle in itself and was felt to be one . |
| 30 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |