Example sentences of "was [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was like being ambushed with filthy snowballs ; they materialized without warning , crashed painfully against the eardrums , and buffeted the aircraft .
2 It was like being wrapped in barbed wire by a gang of fox terriers .
3 Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be .
4 The Expert stated that the proof of the argument was to be seen in many photos of Arabians .
5 The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe .
6 He further stipulated that the building was to be erected within seven years of his death , otherwise the trustees were authorised to apply the money to any other charitable purpose .
7 Compared with Barry 's Board of Trade , the Broad Sanctuary houses were hideous and it ‘ would excite one 's horror , if one were to imagine that any portion of London was to be covered with such edifices ’ .
8 The legislation that was considered in Estonia , to take another example , introduced a compulsory language requirement for a number of occupations , although this was a violation of Soviet labour law , and provided that court business was to be conducted in Estonian , although this conflicted with all-union legislation on court procedures .
9 Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone made Willie Ormond 's period as Scotland manager into a nightmare of infuriating incidents and in the '60s , the city of Turin was to be treated to some memorable scandals when Denis Law and Joe Baker both signed for the Italian League side Torino .
10 Proust 's use of the anonymous first-person narrator was to be adopted in several nouveaux romans .
11 In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt .
12 This old dear , who was to be kept under heavy sedation , clearly did n't know that she was a long-term patient , being treated for depression .
13 The existing age of transfer was to be kept at eleven to keep the time in grammar school to at least four years , since the ‘ new ’ school leaving age was to be fifteen .
14 To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations .
15 Military regrouping was to be completed within 300 days , and the introduction of new forces into either part of Vietnam was prohibited .
16 A hard line was to be maintained for violent and sexual offences with provisions for longer sentences , and Crown Courts were to be given the powers to impose heavier sentences than the individual offence justified , to persistent offenders deemed to be a public risk .
17 A system of ‘ National Assistance ’ was to be maintained for all those who fell outside the other benefits to be paid for by the national exchequer .
18 It was to be headed by former UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and would include representatives of political parties , the government , the National Peace Commission and the Church .
19 Reacting to an upsurge of violence in Northern Ireland , the UK government announced ( i ) on Nov. 13 that the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) was to be strengthened by 441 officers ; and ( ii ) on Nov. 27 that a further army battalion would be sent to Northern Ireland , increasing the number of British regular soldiers there from 10,500 to 11,000 .
20 The sexual instinct , now re-defined as the racial instinct , was to be channelled into healthy and responsible parenthood .
21 The food was to be channelled through international relief agencies to displaced persons within Liberia and to Liberian nationals in Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea and Sierra Leone .
22 But what they all wanted was to be cared for some of the time and often their tears were statements about that need .
23 Qualification for the pension was to be determined by newly-appointed district pensions committees .
24 It was to be influenced by both native British sources and events on the continent , but the most distinctive features , like all continental fascisms , was to be its intensely nationalist roots .
25 The Komsomol was to be split into republican bodies , and it was proposed to disband it , replacing it with youth wings of several parties and a non-political youth organization .
26 The same qualifications characterized the University Statute of 1863 which , while granting the universities greater autonomy , made clear that it was to be exercised within narrow guide-lines .
27 The Wine Committee ( three to six members strong ) was to be elected by all categories of membership , so as not to be in contravention of the law .
28 This was to be followed within 11 weeks by the withdrawal of two-thirds of the Moroccan troops from the territory .
29 However , previous decisions had also laid it down that the identical procedure was to be followed in both cases .
30 Chiang visited Seoul and was to be followed by other Kuomintang emissaries until June 1950 .
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