Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 2 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 3 | Another of his specialities was plate-spinning — Maskelyne traced his first ambition to be a conjuror to his experience as a boy watching Antonio Blitz , a famous plate-spinner , perform . |
| 4 | Lomax describes Robinson as a ‘ moderate ’ and his sympathies with the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) underlined his initial reluctance to be involved in mass direct action ( 1963 , p.103 ) . |
| 5 | The Passionate Shepherd , Marlowe , invoked his pastoral love to be with him ‘ By shallow rivers , to whose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals ’ . |
| 6 | And their misery was complete when Mike Marsh became their third player to be dismissed in Europe this season . |
| 7 | Yes , that was it — apprehension — because the moment Silas realised her true reason for being there he 'd turn on the ice and send her to pack her suitcase . |
| 8 | The passengers made their own way after being taken back to New Street station . |
| 9 | Men displaced their own feeling about being mindless into the women . |
| 10 | For many weeks she watched and noted their social behaviour without being spat at . |
| 11 | No sooner did she set eyes on the gentleman than she recognised his pecuniary position to be merely temporary . |
| 12 | A more likely explanation is that , seeing that the Germans had vanished overnight from the field of Gumbinnen he judged his outnumbered foe to be in full retreat , either to the fortress city of Konigsberg or over the Vistula . |
| 13 | Unfortunately heavy monsoon rain caused our first game to be abandoned against Singapore CC Sunday XI — we were 87 for one off 12 overs ! |
| 14 | The party declared its main goal to be preventing the country 's disintegration . |
| 15 | It would also transform the created order , resulting in geological changes bringing about a favourable climate and fertility of the soil , so that Israel surpassed her early reputation of being a land of ‘ milk and honey ’ ( Isa. 11:6–9 ; 32:14–20 ; 38:1f ; Zech. 14:3f ; Amos 9:13 ) . |
| 16 | Uncensored in his own country until the 1968 invasion ( when he was put under an outright ban ) , he discovered his first novel to be published in the West had been rewritten from start to finish by the publisher . |
| 17 | In response to the many toasts from his American colleagues he had made a light-hearted speech at dinner , which belied his deep disappointment at being sent back to the States on a Public Relations assignment . |
| 18 | The clearer the outline of my skeleton became , the more I felt my true self to be emerging , like a nude statue being gradually hewn from some amorphous block of stone . |
| 19 | Most cities reached their present size by being centres of manufacturing production . |
| 20 | But it is probable — at least in a small town such as Stockport — that the School represented their first experience of being taught . |
| 21 | He meant his Christian commitment to be total . |
| 22 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 23 | He accused his estranged wife of being paranoid — but said he felt no ill will toward her . |
| 24 | But last night he insisted he had no grudge against Taylor , even though in his column he openly discussed his innermost anguish at being one of only three England players not to kick a ball during finals . |
| 25 | He looked infuriatingly cool , unmoved by her imperfectly concealed annoyance , as he answered , ‘ I preferred our second meeting to be a surprise . ’ |
| 26 | I wanted my old friend to be there ; I prayed for nothing to have changed . |
| 27 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 28 | Margaret , already a mother of eight , decided that she wanted her ninth baby to be born at home . |
| 29 | At the end of May 1989 a new supreme representative body , the 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies , held its inaugural session after being elected in three rounds of voting during the previous two months . |
| 30 | Business and the bourgeoisie soon overcame their initial gratitude at being spared revolution and began to grumble about the " collectivism " of de Gaulle 's economic policies , not to mention the inclusion of communists in his government . |