Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 2 | The retirement of the Rev William Sleight was intended to be partial . |
| 3 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ he said , adding in a tone that was intended to be gentle , but came out wheedling , ‘ Do you find me repulsive ? ’ |
| 5 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 6 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 7 | An expensive film may well be a flop ( Blade Runner cost $27 million yet took under $15 million in North American ( NA ) rentals , which are traditionally supposed to cover negative — that is production — costs for break-even ) ; the fact that it was intended to be profitable puts it in the domain of popular cinema . |
| 8 | A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe . |
| 9 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 10 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 11 | Wimpy International Ltd v Warland [ 1988 ] STC 149 had determined that the facts to be considered were : whether an item appeared visually to retain a separate identity ; the degree of permanence with which it had been attached ; the incompleteness of the structure without it ; and the extent to which it was intended to be permanent . |
| 12 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 13 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 14 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 15 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 16 | The S phase duration was calculated to be 10 hours . |
| 17 | The risk was calculated to be 1.53 for current smokers and 1.39 for ex-cigarette smokers . |
| 18 | The number of passengers on Russian railways in 1922 was calculated to be 91.1 million , as opposed to 184.8 million in 1913 . |
| 19 | We estimated that a change of five points in the Spielberger score might be clinically significant ; to detect this with 95% power ( assuming a standard deviation of 6 ) the required sample size was calculated to be 40–50 patients in each group . |
| 20 | The maximum concentration of free fatty acid in the incubation mixture was calculated to be 50 µM . |
| 21 | The prescribing unit for the two study practices was calculated to be 3.3 based on cost for patients over 65 years ( men 4.1 , women 2.8 ) and 3.9 for items ( men 4.7 and women 3.3 ) . |
| 22 | With 27 ministries and little co-ordination between them it was recognized to be cumbersome and inefficient . |
| 23 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 24 | ‘ It will prove that the Princess of Wales was justified in being concerned about the relationship between her husband and Camilla Parker Bowles . ’ |
| 25 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 26 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 27 | The date to remember is Friday , July 17 , when I was honoured to be present at its rebirth , so to speak . |
| 28 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 29 | From earliest days , the proportion of the hexagon was recommended to be 5 units deep , 4 units wide with the cross-spars 3 units apart and this simple formula with units at 500mm ( 19¾in ) has sufficed adequately . |
| 30 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |