Example sentences of "was [verb] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps Charles 's realm was intended to be rather more than a prospective one . |
| 2 | The original design of Q magazine was intended to be highly distinctive , to create impact and to celebrate the total quality programme . |
| 3 | The Architects Club , founded in 1791 , was a dining club with limited membership and in no way attempted to be a professional body , but The London Architectural Society , founded in 1806 , was intended to be more representative and instructional . |
| 4 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 5 | Batch 3 was intended to be quite small , in terms of numbers of courses . |
| 6 | In 1697 Peter I sent groups of Russian nobles to Venice , the Dutch republic and England , essentially to study seamanship ; but though their training was intended to be purely technical they none the less provided when they returned home a nucleus of mainly young men with experience of foreign countries and a grasp of foreign languages . |
| 7 | The amount of time required to sort all the cards without actually considering the value of the card was calculated to be approximately 25 msecs . |
| 8 | During model runs simulating the onset and the progress of the spring bloom the ‘ critical depth ’ was calculated to be about 55 m . |
| 9 | The cap had a childproof seal , and it was proving to be pretty Lucasproof as well . |
| 10 | The Lord Coroner was proving to be as difficult a problem as the dreadful deaths they were investigating . |
| 11 | Mercifully the Long Island Expressway , which Mrs Meadows had warned them might well be one long traffic jam , was proving to be relatively uncrowded . |
| 12 | This conversation was proving to be unbearably painful . |
| 13 | Why , almost right from the start she 'd known she was playing with fire , and the rest of the cliché was proving to be disastrously right . |
| 14 | A programming language that was developed to be as close as possible to our own , in order to make the programmers ' work easier . |
| 15 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 16 | Unemployment in mid-1991 was reported to be over 200,000 and forecast to rise sharply by the end of the year . |
| 17 | She was reported to be deeply depressed and feeling dejected . |
| 18 | Furthermore , Kim was reported to be deeply unpopular within two of the three factions of the DLP . |
| 19 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 20 | The ANC leadership rejected this as a " propaganda ploy " , although by the end of the month the ANC was reported to be under intense diplomatic pressure to attend the " peace summit " . |
| 21 | In addition , measurements of prolonged squeezing were not recorded in the two studies where biofeedback was reported to be as effective as conventional medical treatment . |
| 22 | The overall abstention rate was reported to be as high as 55 per cent of the electorate of 2,200,000 . |
| 23 | The issue was reported to be extremely important to Salinas , who had publicly pledged that he would root out corruption and defend human rights . |
| 24 | Turnout in the second round was reported to be around 20 per cent . |
| 25 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 26 | The questionnaire was designed to be largely self-explanatory and relatively quick to complete . |
| 27 | In addition , the coding system used to describe the condition of items was designed to be as simple and unambiguous as possible . |
| 28 | The W algorithm was designed to be more breadth-first , and more consistent results were expected regardless of the input conditions . |
| 29 | P was designed to be more depth-first . |
| 30 | Insiders in the Cope camp claim that the 34-year-old singer was deemed to be too old and uncommercial by Island . |