Example sentences of "that was [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town . |
| 2 | She said the TEC could offer disabled trainees help with loan of equipment , or could extend the tuition period if that was felt to be useful . |
| 3 | That was discovered to be superfluid in about nineteen thirty-two . |
| 4 | That was intended to be a pat on the back — as one of several others — for me . |
| 5 | In another incident , 4 million tons of " harmless " Rhine river sludge that was sent to be dumped in a Silesian coal mine , was found to contain cobalt and cadmium . |
| 6 | We had Paul Gascoigne pulling someone 's shorts down the other night , and that was deemed to be a prankster at work . |
| 7 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 8 | In a sense , repressing all that was deemed to be inimical to the regime was the " easy " part of the task of consolidating the result of the Civil War . |
| 9 | How did the news media , scientists and governments take on board a claim that made no sense within the laws of physics , was based in part on wrong data and that was shown to be flawed within days of the announcement ? |
| 10 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 11 | ‘ That was meant to be sarcastic . ’ |
| 12 | That was meant to be a joke ! ’ |
| 13 | It is probably a minority of medieval antifeminist writing that was meant to be taken literally rather than metaphorically ; even Jerome 's model diatribe was a rhetorical exercise designed for the refutation of Jovinianus and the assertion of the value of celibacy . |
| 14 | It was also a display of independence from Washington that was meant to be noticed elsewhere , particularly in Moscow . |
| 15 | I think that was meant to be the — er — general idea , ’ she muttered , staring down at her glass as she strove for composure . |
| 16 | Oh I did n't know that was meant to be him . |
| 17 | Once he had obtained a post mortem report identifying the medical cause of death , that was taken to be the sole cause of death : the coroner reached the conclusion that there could be no other cause and so he precluded himself from considering lack of care as a cause . |
| 18 | That was held to be a confession . |
| 19 | All that was left to be done was the last-minute cooking . |