Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Purry generally turns up trumps , ’ he added , surprised at the rather strange effect Penelope seemed to be having on his conversation . |
| 2 | Er who ran bus services from Gala to Selkirk and Melrose and er we sold out to them because we , the other side of the business where the private car side seemed to be growing . |
| 3 | On Nov. 12 Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said to be concerned about alienating international opinion were quoted in Tokyo as saying that they would press the government " to think carefully about our future plans " to transport more plutonium to Japan over the next decade . |
| 4 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 5 | Although some Iraqi pockets remained , by the evening of Feb. 26 the Kuwaiti resistance movement claimed to be in control of Kuwait City . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the regular demand and supply of currencies in the foreign exchange markets tended to be dominated by current account transactions , which were expanding quite rapidly as international trade grew faster than domestic growth rates . |
| 7 | In the ancient world these dies were engraved by hand , but from the early medieval period punches began to be hammered into the die to make up the designs . |
| 8 | Two of the social security reforms proved to be particularly controversial . |
| 9 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 10 | Through him , more than through any other single force , the aesthetic worth of primitive art forms came to be recognized . |
| 11 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate recently published a study of the Danish folkeskole , one of a series highlighting various aspects of foreign education systems believed to be relevant to British practice . |
| 12 | While permanent courts were established in the main centres of population , High Court judges continued to be itinerant , backed up by circuit judges sitting continuously in the main centres . |
| 13 | It was in this period that the first organised adult meetings began to be held , first in Glasgow then in Edinburgh , London , Manchester and Leeds . |
| 14 | [ Frederick Rogers , Labour , Life and Literature , 1913 ( new edn. with introduction by David Rubinstein , 1973 ) ; F. H. Stead , How Old Age Pensions Began to Be , 1909 ; Labour party archives , National Museum of Labour History , Manchester ; J. M. Bellamy and J. Saville ( eds . ) , |
| 15 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 16 | In fact only two pictures a still life by an eighteenth-century Italian Master and an interesting church interior deserved to be on show . |
| 17 | And are you able to tell me , Inspector , how a hundred and fifty year old dress sword came to be sharp enough to sever a man 's head ? ’ |
| 18 | Between 780 and 782 Saxony seemed to be well under control ; even when Charles left the country , no immediate rebellion occurred , and enforced missionary work seemed to be successful . |
| 19 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 20 | They also stressed that Latin America 's foreign debt problem had to be addressed during negotiations on the initiative . |
| 21 | All my favourite high street shops seemed to be offering them if you just walked in off the street so I snapped up several . |
| 22 | The leading high technology companies tended to be American or Japanese , and many European companies were unable to maintain a presence in these markets . |
| 23 | In addition the navy was to receive a new aircraft carrier and the army and air force would get the LH helicopter and an advanced tactical fighter aircraft , among a new generation of high technology systems expected to be partly financed by the termination of many existing systems . |
| 24 | A CHILD suffering from a serious heart condition had to be airlifted from North Wales to a specialist cardiac unit yesterday . |
| 25 | The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly . |
| 26 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 27 | How does this square with another proposition that is sometimes put forward , that in Roman law trusts had to be set up in precatory words ? |
| 28 | Our business correspondent Alan Saunby says the deal puts a question mark over a similar turbo prop planned to be built at the Ayrshire plant . |
| 29 | They had approached a GLC body , the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) , for money and been told that if it was to put money in , an established business person had to be involved . |
| 30 | In view of the size of the commitment , an outside catering contractor had to be called in to help provide lunch for 1,400 people in a large marquee on the garrison sports ground . |