Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 2 | Mr Hill said the murder still appeared to be motiveless . |
| 3 | Most of the enemy still seemed to be asleep as the avalanche of horses and riders bore down upon them in pounding fury . |
| 4 | This was the very widespread feeling ( at least in Parliament : public opinion normally tended to be suspicious of ministerial projects ) that the king and his ministers had a right to the support of all loyal and patriotic subjects . |
| 5 | The caddie also had to be fastidious with his player 's equipment , providing clean clubs and balls . |
| 6 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 7 | The duke therefore had to be satisfied with rather less permanent methods of limiting the Woodvilles ' power . |
| 8 | The duke therefore had to be satisfied with rather less permanent methods of limiting the Woodvilles ' power . |
| 9 | That commercial television then proved to be popular is beside the point . |
| 10 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 11 | For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids . |
| 12 | A minute later she had the result , and although the scales were less accurate than those at Dr Greene 's consulting-rooms , the weight gain still seemed to be dramatic . |
| 13 | As ever when they met , they exchanged warm , friendly smiles , which supposed an equality both knew to be spurious , and intimated chumminess which belied the invariable gravity of their discussions and business together . |
| 14 | Despite this innovation there continued to be considerable public disquiet . |
| 15 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 16 | This couple certainly appeared to be full of faith , which was encouraging as it was the first home that I visited . |
| 17 | This goal too appeared to be self-defeating in the Nikol'skaia volost' . |