Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's event was intended to be a re-creation of the ‘ people power ’ uprising that swept Mrs Aquino to office . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 4 | The C65 was intended to be a low-cost computer with better technical specifications than , but still compatible with , the C64 . |
| 5 | The community charge was intended to be a simple and visible system of raising revenue in which the behaviour of profligate ( assumed to be Labour ) councils would be evident to the electorate . |
| 6 | The break was intended to be a long one , possibly a year or two . |
| 7 | As part of the Guild of St George it was intended to be a means of bringing craftsmen into contact with works of art , especially of the Middle Ages , early Italian Renaissance and Gothic revival , and with objects of natural beauty . |
| 8 | He questions the validity of such a statement and argues that , in Devlin 's formulation , it was intended to be a statement of empirical fact , or more likely an a priori assumption . |
| 9 | The original OEM agreement was intended to be a stopgap while IBM developed its own fault-tolerant machines . |
| 10 | The ‘ real ’ Viking , of course , was intended to be a 50MHz part . |
| 11 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
| 12 | Sometimes called Scotland 's Disgrace , because it was never finished for lack of funds , this fragment of a memorial to the fallen in the Napoleonic War was intended to be a facsimile of the parthenon . |
| 13 | The recreation of a Colorado militia cavalry unit 's massacre of Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek in November 1864 that climaxed Ralph Nelson 's Soldier Blue ( 1970 ) was intended to be a direct reference to the infamous My Lai massacre of 1968 which led to the court-martial and imprisonment of Lt William Calley . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Helsinki was intended to be a step towards further conversations and , like Yalta , its recognition of European borders was not so much a ‘ betrayal ’ of those under Soviet domination as a recognition of hard facts . |
| 16 | Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is something of a paradox when one remembers Lord Hailsham 's assurance that the 1981 Act was intended to be a liberalising measure . |
| 19 | He kissed me ; it was intended to be a sealing sort of kiss to show me that he believed me and that things were going to start being all right , but the kiss altered in the middle and suddenly he pulled himself away . |
| 20 | This was intended to be a temporary measure , but it was so successful that the Chinese authorities gave it formal recognition for the whole of Aglen 's term as inspector-general ( 1911–27 ) . |
| 21 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 22 | That was intended to be a pat on the back — as one of several others — for me . |
| 23 | His paper was intended to be a tentative , exploratory investigation of British data and little else besides . |
| 24 | The sacking of MacArthur was a public sacking , it was intended to be a public humiliation of MacArthur , and that 's what it was . |
| 25 | The church is in fact only the north aisle of what was intended to be a mini-cathedral . |
| 26 | If fusion was really taking place , then these products should be found and from the amount of heat measured one could determine the amount of fusion products that should have been seen ; the answer was calculated to be a staggering thousand billion neutrons per second . |
| 27 | Sir Walter Scott once said he was honoured to be a mere twig on the Swinton family tree . |
| 28 | In what was claimed to be a complete coincidence , Israel launched Ofek 2 , its second space satellite , on April 3 [ for launch of Ofek 1 in September 1988 see p. 36637 ] . |
| 29 | Kallal had on Sept. 28 revealed further details of what was claimed to be a longstanding fundamentalist conspiracy to seize power [ see pp. 38215 ; 38456 ] . |
| 30 | The sand — housed in what was claimed to be a mock-up of a nuclear flask [ two old oil drums sporting radiation stickers and lined with plastic bags ] — had been collected by Greenpeace from beaches near Sellafield . |