Example sentences of "were [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 2 | The Lady Mayoress and I were honoured to have y have the pleasure of your company when you visited us recently . |
| 3 | Although its decisions were intended to have ‘ military urgency ’ for the rest of the government , Pomgol had an independent apparatus , since its staff was drawn from many Commissariats and departments . |
| 4 | These drugs were intended to have specific effects and on the whole it was hoped that they would have as few other effects as possible . |
| 5 | These ideas had , and were intended to have , considerable influence at school and classroom levels . |
| 6 | All these cathedrals were intended to have many towers surmounted by spires . |
| 7 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 8 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 9 | Out on the road , we were expected to have enough basic journalistic training and common-sense to ask the right questions . |
| 10 | We were expected to have enough initiative to overcome the physical problems , maybe when the streets were under water or covered in snow , to get to our appointment on time . |
| 11 | Agencies then had to develop procedures for the implementation of PPB by the end of December 1965 By 1 April 1966 agencies were expected to have developed a comprehensive , multi-year programme and financial plan . |
| 12 | Conversely , construction and financial services were expected to have a more significant role . |
| 13 | In Malaysia , Sabah and Sarawak were expected to have almost no virgin forest left by the end of the century , as was already the case in Thailand and the Philippines . |
| 14 | As a preliminary to the inspection , the advisers had received the school 's self-appraisal document and were expected to have read it , or the relevant sections of it , before visits began . |
| 15 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 16 | The two other potential candidates , Ronnie Hampel and Tom Hutchison , who joined the board in 1985 , were deemed to have had too little boardroom experience . |
| 17 | Followers of Leavis thought themselves superior in sensibility to the debased majority who were deemed to have been corrupted by democratic industrial society . |
| 18 | Unless you withdrew from the society , you were deemed to have contracted into it ( see 119 , p. 366 ) . |
| 19 | The passage of Wellington 's soldiers through the Basque country , when they were deemed to have behaved with greater decency and correctness than their French opponents , was in some degree the origin of the considerable fashion for this part of France among the English throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The duchy of Rome was the papacy 's ancient land to which the popes were deemed to have succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule and as a result of the Donation of Constantine . |
| 21 | Patients were deemed to have had prior slow healing if any previous ulcer had required a repeat course of treatment to effect healing . |
| 22 | After eight weeks , a further four patients eventually underwent surgery for failure to heal , two were lost to follow up , and four were deemed to have resistant ulcers ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 23 | They were deemed to have breeding and to be the best people to run the land . |
| 24 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 25 | Neither club was pleased , supporters were furious and Liverpool were reported to have protested strongly . |
| 26 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 27 | Flagmakers were reported to have increased their output by 50% . |
| 28 | That it did stand is just as well for the connections of Aboyeur , who were reported to have won £40,000 in bets on the horse . |
| 29 | Farmers in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate were reported to have removed pictures of Hitler from their houses in reaction to the ‘ crucifix action ’ . |
| 30 | The clerks and scholars of the University of Oxford were reported to have gathered ‘ to them great numbers of evil-doers in unlawful assemblies , with no small power by night and by day ’ . |