Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for that to be done at the earliest opportunity , the following morning at 9 o'clock . |
| 2 | I asked for this to be brought ‘ to the attention of the appropriate committee ’ . |
| 3 | I asked for this to be arranged twelve months ago , but it is still in the hands of the solicitor , who does not answer letters . |
| 4 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 5 | They favoured a rival draft of the bill , put forward by the nationalist Matica Slovenska organization , which called for Slovak to be the sole official language . |
| 6 | ‘ You could put right the mistake you made by promising to be my wife in six years ’ time ! ’ |
| 7 | More of the girls , who tended on average to be slightly younger than the boys , were still at school . |
| 8 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 9 | Uncertainty and the reinterpretation of crucial pieces of work were not yet necessary in physics in the 1870s and 1880s , as they seemed to many to be in the human sciences and in the sphere of religion under the pressure of evolutionary theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 10 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 11 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |