Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst response would be the sort that has already begun to be hinted at for ICI : protecting itself through a tangle of joint ventures . |
| 2 | In a population that has already come to be dominated by Always Defect , no other strategy does better . |
| 3 | A distinguished backing band , including Dave Edmunds and Presley 's one-time guitarist , James Burton , knocked out a few appropriate standards while a video crew wandered about on the stage shining lights at an audience that had not paid to be treated as studio extras . |
| 4 | This section on internal buildings has necessarily covered a considerable amount of very detailed information and has inevitably had to be selective . |
| 5 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 6 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 7 | Broaddus — owner of Prodesco , a textile company in Pennsylvania , and an American with extensive business interests outside catering — was a friend and former hotel client of Brown , and had always wanted to be involved in the hospitality industry . |
| 8 | She was a plump young nome who wore trousers and was good at engineering and had actually volunteered to be a guard instead of staying at home learning how to cook ; things were really changing in the quarry . |
| 9 | Boris lost the vote despite the support of the High Priest of Ulric , but has since proved to be the most loyal and energetic of Karl Franz 's Counts . |
| 10 | But Osbern never ceased to be a rebel in the cause of the past , and the battle for Anglo-Saxon antiquity was only half won at Lanfranc 's death . |
| 11 | According to Le Monde , all the candidates professed support for the regime of President Gnassinbe Eyadema , but had not had to be approved in advance by the ruling and sole legal party , the Rally of the Togolese People ( Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais — RPT ) . |
| 12 | ( b ) Repeated loans Where the capital sum paid to the settlor is a sum paid by way of loan , then if one or more capital sums have previously been paid to the settlor by way of loan and wholly repaid , the amount of that capital sum shall be treated as equal to its excess ( if any ) over so much of the sum or sums previously paid as had already fallen to be treated as his income by virtue of s677(1) ( TA 1988 , s677(4) ( b ) ) . |