Example sentences of "was [pron] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nothing to be sent for by the headmaster . |
| 2 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 3 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 4 | So there was nothing to be done . |
| 5 | There was nothing to be done but face the heat . |
| 6 | ‘ Normally , I would shoot through anything — but that day it rained and rained and there was nothing to be done about it , ’ Gerald says . |
| 7 | I feel that it 's such a perfect thing , there was nothing to be done with ‘ Las Meniñas ’ . |
| 8 | " Is this all the fortune the Dawn Maiden has sent me ? " he thought , but there was nothing to be done ; he took her for his wife . |
| 9 | But there was nothing to be done ; Goibniu had made it a request that Floy and Snodgrass travel to the Fire Court leaving Fenella alone . |
| 10 | Toby checked carefully through the boarding annexe after school , and then there was nothing to be done but hand over to Hilary Frome . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the doctors were inexorable , and there was nothing to be done but accept the verdict . |
| 12 | He could have sworn that he had heard yet another vehicle out there , as if he in turn were being followed , but there was nothing to be seen . |
| 13 | Then there was nothing to be seen and the low rumbling slowly faded away . |
| 14 | After a while , there was nothing to be seen at all . |
| 15 | The fern moved slightly in the breeze , but along the path there was nothing to be seen except a scatter of last year 's fallen acorns under an oak . |
| 16 | There was nothing to be seen . |
| 17 | Outside , the storm lashed the windows , there was nothing to be seen of the sea or the red roofs . |
| 18 | Now , of course , there was nothing to be heard at all , nothing to be seen but the sudden , wheeling pallor of one more set of headlights taking the curve in the Silcaster road , far beyond Aurae Phiala . |
| 19 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 20 | At length she decided that there was nothing to be gained by worrying her . |
| 21 | I had a damp cigarette in the shelter of a doorway — but there was nothing to be gained by hanging about here and I set off , squelching at every step , along the road to Shiel Bridge . |
| 22 | But there was nothing to be gained by challenging him now . |
| 23 | There was nothing to be gained by worrying further , so he settled himself as comfortably as possible against the trunk of the tree . |
| 24 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 25 | There was nothing to be gained from worrying , not at this juncture . |
| 26 | She looked utterly spent ; there was nothing to be gained by pressing her further . |
| 27 | The police would have been through every drawer with a toothcomb in their search for clues ; there was nothing to be gained there . |
| 28 | By the end of February 1941 , however , Axis interest in the Spanish offer had subsided considerably : Hitler 's attention was focused on the Soviet Union ; Ribbentrop had instructed Stohrer to desist from his attempts to secure active Spanish participation ; and Mussolini had reached the conclusion that there was nothing to be gained by pressing Spain further . |
| 29 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 30 | I was after all surviving — and that was nothing to be sneezed at , the way things had gone . |