Example sentences of "what was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after Gould 's publication of this information , Darwin moved to London to be closer to what was proving to be a hotbed of scientific activity . |
| 2 | The third stage ( 1946 ) was to increase the pension to what was intended to be subsistence level , but render it conditional on retirement and make contribution compulsory for virtually all . |
| 3 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 4 | IBM Corp issued a statement last week confirming that it is ‘ expanding the role of AD/Cycle to support application development at the workgroup level ’ — moving to the local area network-based software engineering environment it is already offering for its AIX Unix users — but managed to avoid mentioning what was intended to be the core of AD/Cycle , Repository Manager/MVS at all . |
| 5 | Whilst Lakatos did propose what was intended to be a universal criterion of rationality or scientificity , he did not regard this criterion as a consequence of logic alone , or somehow God-given . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he was suspicious of international competition , especially the Olympic movement , fearing it would turn what was intended to be pleasure into too serious a business . |
| 7 | The church is in fact only the north aisle of what was intended to be a mini-cathedral . |
| 8 | In the meantime , it was important to assess and identify the sites for what was hoped to be a series of follow-on stations . |
| 9 | He had just made a pilot for what was hoped to be a series called Beyond Our Ken — although the Ken in the title was not he but one of the most respected performers on radio , Kenneth Horne . |
| 10 | What was destined to be the last series of operations of the desert war was another of Stirling 's grand concepts , intended to tie in with Montgomery 's attack on Tripoli and beyond into Tunisia which was to start on 15 January 1943 . |
| 11 | The tide turned against the Labour government in its marginal defeat in 1951 because of what was seen to be its still strong commitment to state regulation and control and because of the new-found attractiveness of the free-market ideology offered by the Conservatives . |
| 12 | Throughout the 1960s there was increasing analysis of and comment on what was seen to be Britain 's flagging economic performance . |
| 13 | On the latter point , the hon. Gentleman is well aware of what was said at the time of the Barlow Clowes affair , following an investigation by the ombudsman into what was seen to be a unique set of circumstances . |
| 14 | This can hardly be to deny the emperor 's gift but is certainly the action of a realist , to whom arguments from later , and perhaps what was seen to be better , evidence , are important . |
| 15 | The result of the tests was to illustrate that the failure of the right stabiliser on G-BEBP occurred because of an inherent inability of what was believed to be a fail-safe structure to carry the flight loads subsequent to the fracture of the rear spar top chord ( a primary load bearing structure ) ; this was a feature of the basic design and construction rather than some factor specific to G-BEBP . |
| 16 | As with the area of homosexual conduct , the origin of public concern about prostitution lay , not in some liberal or permissive attitude of tolerance , but in a ‘ moral panic ’ over what was believed to be the increasing visibility of a form of deviant behaviour , this time over the increasing visibility of prostitutes and prostitution . |
| 17 | The three were arrested allegedly in possession of what was believed to be cannabis on December 15 . |
| 18 | There were considered theological reasons , based on what was believed to be the case about the biological relationship of woman and man , as to why they could not be . |
| 19 | Precisely they drew on what was common knowledge ( that is to say what was believed to be knowledge ) in their day . |
| 20 | The boys in the prowl-car had been sent to investigate what was believed to be a burst of machine-gun fire — I could confirm that it was — and had called on Rico and the Battler to pull up . |
| 21 | The worsening crisis in Poland during 1980 and 1981 , and what was believed to be a Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in December 1981 , made matters worse ; so too did Cuban intervention in Angola , and US support for the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua . |
| 22 | In December 1989 four letter bombs were mailed in southern cities in what was believed to be a racially motivated campaign . |
| 23 | In New York , police estimated that 4,700,000 people watched what was believed to be the largest-ever ticker-tape parade . |
| 24 | On March 31 a parcel bomb blew up in the hands of a retired air force colonel in Madrid , in what was believed to be an ETA retaliation for the arrests . |
| 25 | Danny McCann , Mairead Farrell and Sean Savage died in the 1988 shootings after the SAS were called in by Gibraltar 's police commissioner to help round up what was believed to be an IRA active service unit preparing an attack against British troops stationed there . |
| 26 | In these two cases , the motivation for the institutional preference was quite different : one based on what was felt to be best for the sufferer , and the other largely on what was best for the carer . |
| 27 | It should be noted , however , that on 10 January R07 HMS Ark Royal sailed from Portsmouth on what was stated to be a ‘ scheduled deployment for exercises in the Mediterranean with allied navies ’ . |
| 28 | But it was hard to express gratitude for what was bound to be seen as a harsh deprivation — the loss of natural family . |
| 29 | Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades . |
| 30 | Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades . |