Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 2 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 3 | St. Peter 's and the adjacent castle site form part of the bull 's head , as these important pagan sites were the first to be rebuilt in the medieval period . |
| 4 | These elections were the first to be held for offices above the lowest administrative level since China became a republic in 1911 and the fist nationwide elections for People 's Congresses since the outset of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 5 | The National Assembly elections were the first to be seriously contested by parties opposed to the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) . |
| 6 | Conventional systems analysis procedures were applied to single applications that were the first to be computerised in the organisation . |
| 7 | The silos were the first to be rebuilt with completion in 1950 ready for the harvest of that year . |
| 8 | These cars were the last to be constructed by English Electric for Blackpool , and the last trams that they built in their East Works , now used by British Aerospace . |
| 9 | Cheng and Teo were the last to be released of 22 people detained in 1987 for their involvement in the " conspiracy " [ see p. 35462 ] . |
| 10 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 11 | The 1991 exercise , which was due to involve 140,000 troops and to last for 10 days starting on March 11 , was the smallest to be held . |
| 12 | I wo n't linger on the shingle flats , for I 'd come to climb , and the route of my choice was the first to be recorded in Wales . |
| 13 | The trial was conducted under martial-law provisions proclaimed only on the day of their arrest , and was the first to be held under these procedures . |
| 14 | Fisher & Paykel was the first to be affected as speeds dropped from more than 11 knots to only eight . |
| 15 | Founded in 1989 , the company was the first to be set up by the University 's technology transfer unit . |
| 16 | This part of the embankment was the first to be built to the designs of B. Grueber between 1841 and 1845 . |
| 17 | The litter born to this bitch on 24 July 1975 was the first to be whelped in New Zealand . |
| 18 | Car 32 was the first to be extended and placed on bogies ( see 3 ) , although the old top cover was sometimes used . |
| 19 | The market for places in the sun was the first to be hit when high interest rates and the recession at home began to bite but , with mortgage rates now in single figures , people are once more looking abroad . |
| 20 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was the first to be created in Britain in 1967 after a series of incidents highlighted how powerless people were against an abuse of power by central government . |
| 21 | When would the fourth pall-bearer arrive , because , although the labouring side of his assignment was being carried out , he was the first to be called by Alan to say a few words , and also why was the organist playing in such a muted fashion ? |
| 22 | Now a retired accountant living in Orlando , 2nd Lieutenant Dan C Knight was the first to be assigned to B17G , 42–31983 and christened his aircraft Mary Alice after his mother , Mary Alice Knight . |
| 23 | Malekith 's voice was the first to be raised in acclamation . |
| 24 | This project was the first to be overseen by the new Clerk to the Governors , Mr. T. R. Ellis , an Old Stopfordian who had been appointed when the previous Clerk retired in 1942 . |
| 25 | It was the first to be incorporated and go public . |
| 26 | They all turned and looked at me in disgust when I was the first to be called by Estella . |
| 27 | Stefan was the first to be briefed . |
| 28 | The fortnightly Classical Music title was the first to be converted and all the company 's other titles , including their reference books and directories , have followed suit . |
| 29 | North Warehouse , the oldest in Gloucester Docks , although in poor structural condition , was the first to be saved from demolition and redeveloped as the new headquarters for Gloucester City Council . |
| 30 | The bigger boy was the first to be punished . |