Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [vb pp] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I behaved with the arrogance of a lady , and when one of them got a little — fresh ? — I pretended to be insulted and amazed that he could compromise his uniform and position that way . |
| 2 | The choice of his successor according to Swazi custom threatened to be prolonged and difficult . |
| 3 | The functioning of the polytechnics , as their schemes began to be accepted and formal designations made , was to become of increasing interest to the CNAA , and the issues surrounding relationships were to become increasingly prominent , with regard to such matters as the roles of Academic Boards , resource allocation and internal evaluation . |
| 4 | On 14 September 1989 an acquaintance , Jit Ballay , asked the defendant , and the defendant agreed , to supply goods from the shop in exchange for two undated building society cheques for £7,950 and £9,250 , which both Ballay and the defendant knew to be stolen and worthless cheques . |
| 5 | Whitmore recorded 29 types of tree around such a village in Trengganu , noting that 12 of them were identical with wild forest trees , such as the rambutan ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) and the sentul ( Sandoricum koetjape , Meliaceae ) , a further six appeared to be selected and improved forms of wild trees , five were cultigens like the betel nut , and three were exotics , like the papaya ( Carica papaya , a New World cultigen ) . |
| 6 | A special form of coloured route marker had to be developed and approved and it was in this field , as with TRE , that Bennett had the least of his problems . |
| 7 | First the pilchards had to be gutted and salted , and the red hands and sharp knives of the womenfolk were busy for an hour or more . |
| 8 | With their replacement by the High Court and the Crown Court at fixed centres throughout the country , a new administrative structure had to be devised and substantial numbers of non-lawyer administrators were imported from other departments and elsewhere . |
| 9 | However , the potential danger had to be recognised and continued cooperation with the United States would persuade Washington to be more magnanimous and simultaneously protect Japan . |
| 10 | This means that airspace had to be rationed and licensed , and pirate TV is not a very viable possibility . |
| 11 | It was obvious that , to make further progress , every manager had to be involved and non-production areas were just as important in the elimination of waste . |
| 12 | This of course had to be monitored and accountable a as it is at present in the Southern region where we can already see the benefits . |
| 13 | The agreement was based on the famous — some would say infamous-five principles : unimpeded progress to majority rule ( already enshrined in the 1961 Constitution ) had to be maintained and guaranteed ; there would have to be guarantees against retrogressive amendment of the Constitution ; there would need to be immediate improvement in the political status of the black population ; there would have to be progress towards ending racial discrimination ; and the British government would need to be satisfied that any basis proposed for independence was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |
| 14 | Thus research papers were sometimes apparently preoccupied with technique simply because techniques had to be defined and refined for the purpose of the physical geographer . |
| 15 | He warned the congress that old dogmas had to be abandoned and new principles adopted for the changing times . |