Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The space between them seemed to be almost solid , you could see it had edges . |
| 2 | With these stations , extravagance was expressed in scale rather than in exuberance of architecture , although many of them continued to be richly detailed . |
| 3 | As they were more frequently summoned , so numbers of them came to be more frequently re-elected and brought increasing continuity from one assembly to the next . |
| 4 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 5 | The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep . |
| 6 | Some of them seemed to be actually sobbing . |
| 7 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 8 | In every house in the Rante , as well as at every animist site throughout the valley , numerous puzzling little rituals were taking place — all of which had to be successfully completed , apparently , before the final " star-launching " could proceed . |
| 9 | Clearly more than one period of fortification is to be implied , with the likelihood that a masonry wall was added to the front of an existing bank , the contemporary ditch of which had to be solidly filled in order to carry its foundations ; a date for the bank of not earlier than c . |
| 10 | Other aircraft of note included : Mil Mi-6 , Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire , Tu-134 , Tu-154 and Ilyushin II-62 , all of which seemed to be just parked out on the airfield amongst the overgrown grass . |
| 11 | I felt about me ; and my hands came in contact with several fishes , some of which seemed to be still alive , for they squirmed in my fingers , and slipped back to my feet . |
| 12 | Members of parliament and top civil servants were made to reveal their financial assets , some of which proved to be astonishingly large . |
| 13 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
| 14 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |
| 15 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 16 | It was dim and pleasantly cool inside the palazzo as the housekeeper led the way along a bare passage , past what seemed to be mainly old kitchens and store-rooms , and up a flight of stone steps . |
| 17 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 18 | There was little further public interest in what appeared to be just another statistic . |
| 19 | The excluding provision was drafted in what appeared to be very clear and unambiguous terms and the decision indicates that the House of Lords saw the role of the courts in judicial review proceedings as being of great importance . |
| 20 | Thanks especially to who seemed to be everywhere with me loading , unloading , sorting , labelling , selling , loading , unloading … ! |
| 21 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 22 | The mood of the crowd was turning to anger against those responsible for taking the children of South Ronaldsay away on what appeared to be very flimsy evidence , which had not been checked out through the appropriate channels . |
| 23 | Conversely , where , as in the case of China , sources were remote , the type of jade most commonly used at any particular juncture depended on what happened to be most readily accessible at the time . |
| 24 | To the waiters standing about it seemed to be perfectly stationary , but they were not members of the Chop Society and it was not their table . |