Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some decades , working for TDC had been a family tradition , and I met officials who were proud to be third generation prison men . |
| 2 | For example , in In re Tucker ( R. C. ) ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Tucker ( K. R. ) [ 1990 ] Ch. 148 , where the application of the Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 principle was urged , this court declined to construe the words ‘ any person ’ in section 25 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as embracing British subjects wherever they might be , and held that the power given to the court by that section to summon persons before it was even more limited and extended only to persons who were available to be served in England . |
| 3 | The problem affected all Liverpool City Council workers who were due to be paid yesterday . |
| 4 | Andy Norman and Ron had frequently told me about athletes who were content to be the British number one , to make the team . |
| 5 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 6 | His ability to upset people and drive wedges between himself and those who were supposed to be his allies was famous . |
| 7 | When her mother answered , she said the stupid thing she always said to those who were supposed to be close to her , ‘ It 's me . ’ |
| 8 | And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't . |
| 9 | He was told to take God 's word to people who were supposed to be following God . |
| 10 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 11 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 12 | Did they take did enough people like who were supposed to be in , not turn up . |
| 13 | Lesbian issues came to be taken seriously only when there were a number of lesbian volunteers ( and quite a few men supporting them too ) who were prepared to be loud-mouthed , difficult , overworked and sometimes thoroughly disliked within the organization . |
| 14 | Consideration should be given to whether the requirement to be mobile could be restricted to particular regions while indicating that faster progression might be achieved by staff who were prepared to be widely mobile . |
| 15 | They also knew that the support of Indian ‘ moderates ’ , that is , those Indians who were willing to be persuaded of the Raj 's essential righteousness of intent , would be lost if they became too blatantly repressive . |
| 16 | Consideration should be given to whether the internal advertising of management posts would identify those staff who were willing to be considered for a move to a particular branch at a particular time . |
| 17 | The aim was to remove persons who were unfit to be ministers of religion either because of incompetence or scandalous behaviour . |
| 18 | He wanted to help those who were ashamed to be seen washing their own clothes but could not afford the dhobis new prices … |
| 19 | They tended to stress that these women were the hapless , passive victims of debauched aristocrats and manipulative medics , who were eager to be reformed given the necessary moral intervention from without . |
| 20 | There he could entertain certain people who might be useful — people with information to give but who were afraid to be seen entering a barracks or Dublin Castle … . |
| 21 | ( a ) The principle of non-discrimination presupposed the existence of the concept of nationality , but article 7 did not prevent a member state from deciding who were eligible to be its nationals or from deciding which vessels were entitled to fly its flag . |
| 22 | Oswine 's power was clearly already weakening by January 690 for he refers in the grant to Abbess Aebbe at that time to those Kentish nobles who were able to be with him . |
| 23 | How many men were there in Vienna known to Fräulein Müller , who were likely to be on the scene when needed , and now preferred to remain anonymous ? |
| 24 | Concern was once more focused upon the bottom forty per cent who were likely to be , in the words of one report , the ‘ Untrained , Unqualified and Unemployed ’ ( National Youth Employment Council , 1974 ) . |
| 25 | These , then , were some of Orkney 's councillors who were n't afraid to speak out , who were glad to be seen to be supporting the stricken families . |
| 26 | There was no way in the world that he would deliberately inflict on her a woman who was unsuitable to be her mother . |
| 27 | He was a practitioner of the old school who was intrigued to be asked to treat a child named after the mother of Oedipus , but unimpressed with anything she had to say . |
| 28 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
| 29 | But behind it we see a leader who was available to be led by God to break the mould and to go to a completely new group . |
| 30 | Gerald Williams described his former commentary box partner as ‘ an immensely warm person who was proud to be a part of tennis establishment . |