Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tape recording believed to be of his last words proves he executed his young family then killed himself , according to a newspaper report in America . |
| 2 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 3 | Australian Television has broadcast previously unpublished extracts from a telephone conversation said to be between the Princess of Wales and her friend , James Gilbey . |
| 4 | THE Mafia godfather believed to be behind the murder of two crimebusting judges was arrested yesterday . |
| 5 | For the dematerialisation shot the caption slide needed to be of the deserted landscape , ie : with the TARDIS gone . |
| 6 | The services of BGS 's Marine Operations Group continued to be in demand by civil-engineering and mineral-extraction firms , and by the hydrocarbons and power industries . |
| 7 | The idea was that the women should run the house themselves , but there was a series of crises ( husbands discovering the address , a fight between two of the women , harassment from a gang of local kids — and the children themselves to be looked after ) which meant that a couple of the support group had to be around most of the time . |
| 8 | In the view of the WEA , and unlike the position elsewhere , the Cambridge Board appeared to be in an anomalous position which would create new and reprehensible precedents likely to threaten the traditional and unique role of the WEA as a recognised providing body for liberal adult education . |
| 9 | Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000 |
| 10 | Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000 |
| 11 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 12 | When he was invited to switch on the Christmas lights in Settle , he needed a police escort because of a bomb threat believed to be from workers at a local quarry . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the very great and rare educators , he knew the art department had to be in the centre of the school , and not way down in some field : he encouraged me to get on with it . ’ |
| 14 | Although some Iraqi pockets remained , by the evening of Feb. 26 the Kuwaiti resistance movement claimed to be in control of Kuwait City . |
| 15 | Although President George Bush won the primary , his margin of victory over right-wing challenger Patrick Buchanan was unconvincing , and by the end of the month the Bush campaign appeared to be in some disarray . |
| 16 | While on the subject of meat , we can tell you that the competition to find the best-made sausages in the UK gets under way this Sunday with the defending champion reported to be in sizzling form . |
| 17 | With hindsight , it is difficult to see quite the radical innovation variable analysis proved to be in social research . |
| 18 | A town centre wall feared to be in danger of collapse could cost up to £60,000 to put right . |
| 19 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 20 | But the RYA was always more likely to plump for a more conventional design and building set-up , and four boats at Rutland Water looked to be in the frame . |
| 21 | In fact only two pictures a still life by an eighteenth-century Italian Master and an interesting church interior deserved to be on show . |
| 22 | Willis Faber , the insurance broker said to be on the verge of selling its 20.5 per cent shareholding in MG to a potential bidder , was unchanged at 242p . |
| 23 | Yet despite the ( partly chemically induced ) euphoria of pop music in the summer of 1967 — as the youth utopia seemed to be within grasp — that year also represents the highwater mark of the Teen age , of the love affair between the dominant culture and youth . |
| 24 | It is a wildlife site acknowledged to be of world conservation importance under the Ramsar criteria ( the Ramsar Convention ) , which has been signed by Britain , exists to preserve wetlands of world importance ) and protected under British law as a 600-acre site of special scientific interest . |
| 25 | From early on March 28 the whole of Moscow city centre appeared to be under siege , with lorries and armoured cars blocking all approaches to the Kremlin , water-cannon trucks , mounted police and troops in gas masks stationed in backstreets , and troops on street corners keeping shoppers and sightseers away from the Kremlin . |
| 26 | And of course what I want to know most of all is why Paul 's number plate happened to be in Lord Cumbermound 's stable . ’ |
| 27 | With consumption forecast to rise by 2% in 1989 — and with demand for OPEC oil expected to be at least 1m b/d less than the cartels supply during the second quarter — the world could again be awash in oil in a matter of months . |
| 28 | Sir , — Last week a Liphook Junior School parent claimed to be on neither ‘ one side or the other ’ in the current debate over education standards . |
| 29 | The reason I 'm telling you all this is that not so long ago the PD scene seemed to be in decline . |
| 30 | ‘ The individual producer , or the individual as the elementary subject of production , which eighteenth century mythology imagined to be at the origin of society 's economic development … only appeared , even as an ‘ appearance ’ in developed capitalist society , that is , in the society which had developed the social character of production to the highest degree . ’ |