Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 2 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 3 | Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported . |
| 4 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 5 | Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area . |
| 6 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 8 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 9 | But it was always tempting to indulge in whatever small luxuries were available and people were constantly warned to be aware of the squanderbug . |
| 10 | By contrast numerous Upper Palaeolithic interments extending from western Europe to Siberia were sufficiently respected to be buried clothed and accompanied by their personal finery . |
| 11 | On Nov. 22 elections , which on Nov. 10 had been called by President Hugh Desmond Hoyte for Dec. 16 , and which were constitutionally required to be held by Dec. 28 at the latest , were indefinitely postponed after the chairman of the Elections Commission , Rudolph Collins , warned that a proper electoral register could not be prepared in time . |
| 12 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 13 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 14 | I fear that the courts sorely missed assistance from academic lawyers specialising in this branch of the law ; but the law faculties in our universities were only beginning to be established towards the end of the 19th century . |
| 15 | Was it true ? she demanded of the silly girl : that she 'd run away from the boys when they were only trying to be friendly ? |
| 16 | ‘ They wanted everything we had on the stand — and they were only meant to be samples . |
| 17 | They were only meant to be temporary , but humankind has barriers just like them in their own heads — permanent ones in most cases . |
| 18 | They were only meant to be temporary , to last ten years , so it 's a bit of a laugh . |
| 19 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 20 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 21 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 22 | Carlos was an easygoing young man , with so many girlfriends that Shelley knew they were only going to be friends , nothing more . |
| 23 | We were only going to be in 24 hours so we would n't bother having a meal we 'd have a slap up on the way out , ’ said Michael . |
| 24 | No , well we 've got the bulk , we were only going to be in Woking an hour . |
| 25 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 26 | ‘ They were only told to be careful , ’ the depute fiscal said . |
| 27 | The best-known , however , is the Contes moralisés ( probably written after 1320 ) , a collection of prose stories and exempla illustrating some moral point , which were perhaps intended to be used in sermons . |
| 28 | They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps . |
| 29 | The Smiths as far as I was concerned were obviously going to be massive , what-they-now-are . |
| 30 | She nodded , wondering why on earth , since Liz was dead and they were obviously going to be sharing a room . |