Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 2 | It would certainly damage the apostle 's prophecy of future judgment of the world by God if he were found to be making reference to events which were only myth and legend . |
| 3 | Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical , he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz . |
| 4 | He was recognised to be highly jealous and irascible . |
| 5 | During his time at York he was invited to be the visitor of the House of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire , the community of priests founded at the end of the last century by Charles Gore . |
| 6 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 7 | It was customary for boxers to box frequently , and Lynch had twenty-five contests in his twentieth year , by which time he was acknowledged to be the best ‘ wee ’ man in Glasgow . |
| 8 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 9 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought the idea was to let the funeral go ahead , or at least make it look like it was ; he was bound to be here . |
| 11 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 12 | He was bound to be , was n't he ? |
| 13 | ‘ He was bound to be punished . ’ |
| 14 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 15 | Nigel first started looking at bungee jumps in 1990 when he was asked to be an expert witness in an industrial tribunal concerning a bungee jump at a fairground . |
| 16 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 17 | While he was perceived to be concerned with the great strategic issues of war leadership , the representatives of the Party had to tackle the tedious , and often unpopular , workaday matters affecting daily life in the Heimat . |
| 18 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 19 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 20 | He was seen to be attacking the moral , manly roots of English public life with the aid of effeminate , aristocratic tastes . |
| 21 | ‘ … that it would look much better if he was seen to be supporting indigenous native art as well as looking to Africa or Latin America . |
| 22 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 23 | Father Shanahan received his call to God when he was engaged to be married , the court heard . |
| 24 | I remember my mess-mate and how he was engaged to be married , and today he would be happily married with kids . ’ |
| 25 | By the high-priestly families of Jerusalem he was felt to be a threat both to their authority and to their political collaboration with the Roman power . |
| 26 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 27 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 28 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 29 | Innocent also had an " acting chancellor " in his second pontifical year , from 1199 to 1200 , Rainald , a papal notary , but he was sent to be archbishop of Acerenza . |
| 30 | He was born to be |