Example sentences of "she was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was decided to be agreeable and unobtrusive . |
| 2 | She was determined to be less biddable . |
| 3 | Still … those recent moments along the track had been wonderful — while they 'd lasted — and she was learning to be thankful for small moments of joy . |
| 4 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 5 | She was bound to be sick before the last race , either then or on the road to the meeting , or on the road home . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | She was seen to be afebrile with a tender rigid abdomen on admission to her local hospital . |
| 8 | She was getting to be very wary of those dark eyes and their constant probing . |
| 9 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 10 | She was beginning to be afraid , in fact , that she had drunk too much . |
| 11 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 12 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 13 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 14 | She was expecting to be pinned down by a concentrated bout of gunfire to give the German a chance to retreat but instead the second sniper swung his FN FAL on the unsuspecting German and gunned him down . |
| 15 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 16 | She was trying to be friendly , to show me that she , too , could be human and silly . |
| 17 | Fenella was thinking it , but she was trying to be sensible and practical . |
| 18 | Children being what they are , she was said to be a witch . |
| 19 | She was said to be ‘ strained and suspicious ’ , but insisted she was well and did not need help . |
| 20 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 21 | She was said to be upset because she was too old to use the centre where the party was held in Whitley Bay . |
| 22 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 23 | She was said to be callous , selfish , irresponsible . |
| 24 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 25 | She was said to be stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night , but no longer on a ventilator . |
| 26 | She was said to be ‘ comfortable ’ in Middlesbrough hospital . |
| 27 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 28 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 29 | Louise was what was known as an ‘ exchange student ’ ; at home in Nîmes she was training to be an English teacher and she was doing a year 's exchange as part of her course , teaching French conversation at the local grammar school . |
| 30 | Tim and Julie met 11 years ago in Bath where she was training to be a teacher and he was starting out as a trainee accountant . |