Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil service , like the private telegraph companies , found its female employees to be competent , ‘ docile ’ workers , with the additional advantage of being cheaper to employ than men . |
| 2 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 3 | As the familiar weakness spiralled through her she renewed her desperate struggles to be free . |
| 4 | Furthermore , earlier studies of patients with duodenal ulcer disease , who were presumably mostly infected , showed their parietal cells to be , if anything more sensitive to gastrin than those of controls , although it was not known whether the controls were infected with H pylori . |
| 5 | The adjutant found Woolley with the armourer , checking ammunition before he allowed his machine-gun drums to be filled . |
| 6 | In opposition she particularly urged her front-bench spokesmen to be attentive to the party 's back-bench committees relevant to their subjects . |
| 7 | It is interesting , in view of later criticism of Edward Coleman 's reported preference for the sons of farriers and grooms as students , that Bourgelat preferred his veterinary students to be young men of good morals and behaviour , vigorous and robust , and of souche terriere ; he only occasionally sought out men of more ‘ exalted ’ origin . |