Example sentences of "he was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handling him was going to be a delicate business , and Nelson was more than relieved that the job would n't fall to him . |
| 2 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 4 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 5 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 6 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 7 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 8 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 9 | Sex with Greg was improving a little , he was learning to be less selfish , to think of her pleasure . |
| 10 | Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical , he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz . |
| 11 | He was recognised to be highly jealous and irascible . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 19 | He was bound to be , was n't he ? |
| 20 | ‘ He was bound to be punished . ’ |
| 21 | Ian Barclay , coach to the 1987 Wimbledon champion , said it was extremely unlikely Cash would play singles then , but he was aiming to be fit for the Davis Cup tie with France in February . |
| 22 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 28 | He was seen to be attacking the moral , manly roots of English public life with the aid of effeminate , aristocratic tastes . |
| 29 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |