Example sentences of "[coord] were [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 2 | Similarly , cross-references which were not satisfied or were found to be ambiguous during the earlier stage of computer processing may need to be corrected or updated . |
| 3 | ‘ Or were going to be acquired , since the entries are in pencil . ’ |
| 4 | Professor Gordon Higginson , Southampton University vice-chancellor , who chaired the committee , said its proposals were quite modest and were bound to be implemented by the mid-1990s . |
| 5 | Events seemed to be slipping away , voices were welling from the inside and were poised to be audible . |
| 6 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 7 | Critics of the regime were reported to be openly venting their displeasure ‘ at new laws , announcements of the government about future Party buildings , the planned social legislation , school reform , etc. , ’ and pointed to ‘ the higher taxes , the restrictions on personal freedom , the ‘ threat to the Christian philosophy ’ , the promotions in the civil service almost solely on the basis of attitude and Party membership without any consideration of ability , the activity of the Gestapo , the ‘ reign of terror ’ ( Schreckensregiment ) , the ‘ corruption ’ ’ , and the mismanagement of Party hacks and bosses , and were said to be conveying their discontent and doubts ‘ to ever wider circles ’ . |
| 8 | Its feathers were long , silken and of every imaginable colour , and were said to be infused with the glow of Paradise . |
| 9 | Bookings were reportedly around a billion dollars and were said to be continuing strong . |
| 10 | Floods in the southern provinces of Kompong Speu , Takeo , Kampot and Kandal which had begun in mid-August [ see p. 38390 ] and were said to be the worst in 50 years , left 100 people dead and washed away houses , roads , bridges and railway lines , and by Sept. 4 were threatening Phnom Penh . |
| 11 | They were reported to have fled the camps and were said to be attempting to return to their homes . |
| 12 | They were to meet members of the Board of Trade at six o'clock and were scheduled to be available for public questioning at a meeting on the mezzanine floor of the hotel at seven . |
| 13 | They were , and were intended to be , a massive deterrent to political opposition . |
| 14 | Pierre Matisse , son of the painter Henri , also had works by Miró in his own personal collection but it would appear that all the works acquired by Katshuda belonged to his gallery and were intended to be sold . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there is the ideological and institutional inheritance of feudalism : the assemblies of privileged estates , usually aristocracy , clergy , and commons , which had developed within feudal societies and were intended to be roughly representative of wider social constituencies or groupings . |
| 16 | These exemplars were chosen to reflect a range of different traffic situations within each junction and were intended to be representative of the full set of 28 films of each junction available from the drives in Study 1 . |
| 17 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 18 | In general however , women were sent back to their music and their embroidery and were told to be submissive . |
| 19 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 20 | They were quite tiny houses having no convenience and were reputed to be very damp . |
| 21 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |
| 22 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 23 | The motions which were chosen for debate all hovered marginally above the lowest common factor of Party opinion and were designed to be carried nem con . |
| 24 | The changes were supported by all the major parties and were expected to be approved by parliament in due course . |
| 25 | They built makeshift barricades against tank attacks and were reported to be forming " defence units " . |
| 26 | The French government airlifted 450 troops to reinforce its 1,100 strong Chad garrison on Jan. 3 after armed rebels advancing from across the Nigerian border into the eastern Lake Chad region had captured the towns of Liwa and Bol and were reported to be threatening the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 27 | All the facts given were checked and were found to be completely accurate . |
| 28 | The bags were returned in accordance with diplomatic protocol , and were found to be unopened and untampered with . ’ |
| 29 | A medical history , electrocardiograph , blood pressure , and standard laboratory findings were obtained before the experiment and were found to be negative or normal Haematocrit was also obtained 24 hours after the experiment . |
| 30 | The defendants had repaired the wheel shortly before the accident and were held to be manufacturers . |