Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retirement of the Rev William Sleight was intended to be partial . |
| 2 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ he said , adding in a tone that was intended to be gentle , but came out wheedling , ‘ Do you find me repulsive ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 12 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 13 | With 27 ministries and little co-ordination between them it was recognized to be cumbersome and inefficient . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The date to remember is Friday , July 17 , when I was honoured to be present at its rebirth , so to speak . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was claimed to be contrary to the right to property guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment . |
| 19 | Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge . |
| 20 | There was reported to be strong personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal , who had been Demirel 's economic adviser in 1979-80 before acting as an adviser to the military regime of 1980-82 and founding the ANAP in 1983 . |
| 21 | Moves to resolve differences on the CFE treaty were said also to have been encouraged by Soviet President Gorbachev who was reported to be keen to clear remaining obstacles in the way of a US-Soviet summit meeting [ see pp. 37945 ; 37979 ] . |
| 22 | Lydon was reported to be impressed . |
| 23 | Lydon was reported to be impressed . |
| 24 | Mr Major was reported to be resolute after Mr Lamont 's attack . |
| 25 | Mr Major was reported to be resolute after Mr Lamont 's attack . |
| 26 | Des Burke , Burmin 's Managing Director , was reported to be confident of dispelling opposition : ‘ Of course there are people jumping up and down … |
| 27 | Hastings , at least , was reported to be delighted with the turn of events . |
| 28 | Hastings , at least , was reported to be delighted with the turn of events . |
| 29 | The new government appointed in November [ see p. 37874 ] was reported to be anxious to see a quick and decisive victory over Iraq in order that this trend should be reversed . |
| 30 | Trading was reported to be good , if not euphoric , with every gallery selling and some moving as many as twenty works , mostly in a FFr 12,000 ( £1,200 ; $2,000 ) -FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) price range . |