Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 2 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 3 | Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported . |
| 4 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 5 | Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area . |
| 6 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 8 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 9 | But it was always tempting to indulge in whatever small luxuries were available and people were constantly warned to be aware of the squanderbug . |
| 10 | By contrast numerous Upper Palaeolithic interments extending from western Europe to Siberia were sufficiently respected to be buried clothed and accompanied by their personal finery . |
| 11 | On Nov. 22 elections , which on Nov. 10 had been called by President Hugh Desmond Hoyte for Dec. 16 , and which were constitutionally required to be held by Dec. 28 at the latest , were indefinitely postponed after the chairman of the Elections Commission , Rudolph Collins , warned that a proper electoral register could not be prepared in time . |
| 12 | ‘ They wanted everything we had on the stand — and they were only meant to be samples . |
| 13 | They were only meant to be temporary , but humankind has barriers just like them in their own heads — permanent ones in most cases . |
| 14 | They were only meant to be temporary , to last ten years , so it 's a bit of a laugh . |
| 15 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 16 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 17 | ‘ They were only told to be careful , ’ the depute fiscal said . |
| 18 | The best-known , however , is the Contes moralisés ( probably written after 1320 ) , a collection of prose stories and exempla illustrating some moral point , which were perhaps intended to be used in sermons . |
| 19 | They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps . |
| 20 | Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings . |
| 21 | Consider what were generally believed to be the policy implications of the NAIRU hypothesis . |
| 22 | And it was one that was admired far outside the sort of people who were generally believed to be ‘ Carry On ’ fans . |
| 23 | Although proposals for secret ballots and annual elections came to nothing , a Triennial Bill was passed into law in 1694 , whilst in 1696 Acts were passed to prevent electoral charges and expenses ( to keep the price of a contest within the gentry 's means ) and to prevent local changes in the established franchise ( which were generally thought to be made to the Court 's advantage ) . |
| 24 | A bad press highlighted what were generally agreed to be a politician 's weak points ; a good press encouraged people to give politicians even higher ratings on their generally acknowledged strengths . |
| 25 | The Admiralty stood its ground on the principle of always maintaining a balanced fleet , based on a limited number of capital ships , which , in 1957 , were generally agreed to be the aircraft-carriers . |
| 26 | Thus , reading right-wing papers had most effect upon increasing Thatcher 's ratings on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and depressing Kinnock 's ratings on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 27 | Reading right-wing papers had most effect upon improving Thatcher 's image on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and damaging Kinnock 's image on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 28 | These remarks reveal the irresistible appeal of the playful cat even in an era when felines were generally considered to be evil and dangerous , and were being widely persecuted . |
| 29 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 30 | Other drugs , such as azathioprine were soon shown to be even more effective ; and azathioprine was very quickly used for human kidney transplants , and produced a dramatic improvement in their survival . |