Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 2 | Anderson does not deny that kin probably continued to be the main and the most reliable source of aid for migrants into the expanding towns , as they had been in the rural communities ( mostly in Lancashire and Ireland ) from which the migrants came . |
| 3 | It all looked so carefree , so enticingly Mediterranean and relaxed , that Caroline suddenly longed to be able to forget her business , abandon all her years of hard work , hop on board one of those yachts and sail off indefinitely towards the hazy blue horizon … |
| 4 | But the UN , which is trying harder than SWAPO probably realised to be an honest broker , had almost nobody on the ground anyway . |
| 5 | A UN mediation process to resolve the protracted dispute over control of Western Sahara began in June [ see pp.37628-29 ] ; the issue of control of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melillia also remained to be resolved [ see p. 37222 ] . |
| 6 | With a third of all health authorities and trusts now thought to be entertaining the idea of introducing job evaluation schemes for nurses , warning noises are beginning to be sounded from all quarters . |
| 7 | But when applied to the two-particle situation we are considering here , the de Broglie-Bohm formulation leads to a non-local action at a distance with exactly the same properties that Einstein and Schrödinger intuitively felt to be implied by quantum mechanics . |
| 8 | They see the signs of Satan everywhere , not just within dictators , and others widely acknowledged to be evil , but within individual people . |
| 9 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 10 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |