Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Union of the Crowns did not mean that England and Scotland had ceased to be separate countries . |
| 2 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 3 | That wedding between Liz and Owen had proved to be a watershed in all their lives . |
| 4 | Dates and September and October had proved to be difficult and beyond that , it would be a very belated welcome . |
| 5 | A long time ago , Alice thought , as she heard the arrival of the first of Félix 's dinner guests , she and Harry had longed to be rich in order to buy themselves a house which they could share . |
| 6 | He subsequently conceded that the views of English formed in the course of his own education at Edinburgh and Oxford had come to be modified in terms of " Cambridge " notions . |
| 7 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |