Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 2 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 3 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 4 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 6 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 7 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 8 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 9 | And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show . |
| 11 | But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again . |
| 12 | Buzz sensed that she had to be careful , she had to box clever , she had to let Adam think she had accepted what he said and would go quietly . |
| 13 | Over the next couple of days she discovered that she had to be careful not to think about Luke Scott . |
| 14 | was sitting comfortably on a low branch on a tall pine tree in the Wakefield 's back garden , she had her knees up round her chin and was leaning against the trunk , this was Elizabeth 's thinking seat , the place that she went to be alone , there was a lot to think about , tomorrow Mrs , Mr Davis her form teacher would announce the winner of the class essay contest . |
| 15 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 16 | Shy and unhappy , she one day went to sleep in the spare room , hoping that he would come in to find her , but he credited her with his own temperament and thought only that she wished to be alone . |
| 17 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |
| 18 | He had a feeling that she was deliberately avoiding him — that she feared to be alone with him . |
| 19 | For the moment she was so shocked by Charlotte 's naked , sexual jealousy that she forgot to be frightened by the storm . |
| 20 | But we may be glad that she decided to be feminine , as thus she was made . |
| 21 | The fabric was so fine that she appeared to be naked in the bright light . |
| 22 | At one time Carrie thought she heard Anna crying , but she could not be certain and Melody had insisted that she wanted to be alone with Anna for a while . |
| 23 | She also made it clear that she preferred to be alone . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation . |
| 25 | The only thing that did n't work was the understanding that we had to be big time very quickly . |
| 26 | Although reports indicated that there continued to be widespread resistance to any dilution of the CSCE 's unanimity rule [ see p. 38314 ; 38366 ] , questions about its merits resurfaced after the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd on Sept. 10 urged the conference to seek ways of strengthening the CSCE 's mechanisms for the protection of human rights , adding that the UK was " certainly in favour of moving beyond the present situation where everything happens by consensus " . |
| 27 | The first of these conditions ( which in some respects contrast sharply with the regulation in Britain before 1985 ) was that there had to be factual grounds to suspect a person of having committed a crime contrary to the security of the state . |
| 28 | Council leader John Williams ( Lab ) said that there had to be strict conditions . |
| 29 | It was agreed that there needed to be substantial funding restored to both the Housing Executive and health service budget to improve the services they provide and to combat the ever increasing problems which are besetting our community . |
| 30 | His Lordship maintained that s14(6) did not alter the law and that " purpose or purposes " referred to the range of uses of the contract goods but not that they had to be fit for all these purposes . |