Example sentences of "[coord] were [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stewart told the jury six of the group have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal cars and were due to be sentenced on Friday . |
| 2 | ‘ Greedy hacksters ’ a reviewer of 1859 called them , but this was nothing new : portrait painters in England had long been , and were long to be , vilified by the high minded . |
| 3 | He also had a high opinion of British travellers and officials but felt that they were not dedicated , or good examples of Christian virtues ; they had not been chosen for their moral worth and were likely to be judged by Muslims in that light . |
| 4 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 5 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 6 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 7 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 8 | They had cost her uncle just a few cents each and were supposed to be the plates and bowls Chinese coolies ate their rice from while they sat with their rickshaws , waiting for trade , in old Pekin . |
| 9 | Krabbe 's manager Jos Hermens and panel president Wolfgang Schoeppe have refused to comment on the findings of the reports which have only just been completed and were supposed to be kept secret until the final ruling was announced . |
| 10 | The weather was beautiful and those who were fortunate to know that his special was operating and were able to be somewhere along the route were fortunate to share a most attractive experience . |
| 11 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 12 | In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force . |
| 13 | The giants washed their breakfasts down with immense tankards of mead and ale and grunted and were inclined to be morose , which seemed to bear out Caspar 's remarks about them not being morning people . |
| 14 | The rest , he said , " did not represent a necessity to us " and were unlikely to be " helpful to our security " . |
| 15 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 16 | Of these omissions , one quarter were inflected forms , one quarter were proper nouns , one sixth were hyphenated forms , one twelfth were misspellings and one quarter were not yet resolved , but were likely to be new words occurring since the dictionary was published . |
| 17 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 18 | A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee . |
| 19 | Among the crowd there were heroes of the late war and some who might not have been heroes then but were prepared to be so now . |