Example sentences of "and was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was tall , good-looking and fast-talking , and was said to be a first-class shit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A referendum to dissolve parliament was held and was said to be accepted by 99.9 per cent of the people . |
| 8 | Okudaira was still at large and was said to be a member of the Japanese Red Army underground group . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | Ms Gibson was taken to Hammersmith police station and was said to be too distraught to be interviewed , a CID spokesman said . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Owen 's own first chosen vehicle , the co-operative community , had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was important that employee information remained secure , and was seen to be so . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The fire , at Cragside , was in a first floor bedroom and was believed to be caused by electrical equipment overheating . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The renewal , after the dreary state of the early years of the century , seemed a miracle in itself and was felt to be one . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I ran around 50 miles a week in training and was determined to be in good shape , I could n't remember a thing after 15-miles three years ago , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The event was conceived and devised by a group of inmates , and was intended to be essentially an education project informing people in Britain about the circumstances relating to the Naga people . |
| 27 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 28 | Woodhill took its first inmates last summer.It cost forty million pounds and was intended to be part of a new wave of prisons with just one inmate per cell and in which the prisoner could take more reponsibility for his own welfare . |
| 29 | An impressive amateur , the 1984 super-heavyweight Olympic champion , Biggs had won all 15 professional contests and was reckoned to be a considerable prospect in the division until he was overwhelmed by Tyson in Las Vegas on 16 October , 1987 . |
| 30 | He was soon arrested , largely through the efforts of Tom Poole 's father , and was sentenced to be hanged in chains . |