Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [noun] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 2 | I needed crews such as Middleton 's badly and more especially captains like Middleton , but I was aware there was a weakness and that weakness had to be reinforced . |
| 3 | And that goal had to be a very exacting one … . |
| 4 | So , the underlying part of the contract , as I understand it with Bowie , was that he was going to make an album with Tony Visconti and that song had to be done as a single . |
| 5 | The Hungarian Prime Minister , Miklós Németh , meanwhile said that the leaders had " agreed that COMECON in its present form was unviable " and that priority had to be shifted from " a system of five-year plans " to one involving " bilateral contacts " . |
| 6 | They were just that — guidelines , she said , and each case had to be dealt with on its individual merits . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , it was only after some debate that the organisers decided to carry on with the event , and some changes had to be made to the canoe course to make it easier for the rescue boats to assist competitors . |
| 8 | Around 40 homes were flooded by four feet of water , and some residents had to be rescued from first-floor windows . |
| 9 | But they would have met when both the Tallentire brothers became ill and died and some thing had to be done about the farming land that went with Aunt Bessie 's house at Low Fields . |
| 10 | Conversation between strange women at the beginning of a party is often strained and this occasion proved to be no exception . |
| 11 | The medieval Chancellor ( who was usually an ecclesiastic ) performed an analogous function in relation to the rigidity of the common law at the time ; he had the power to issue the royal writs , and this function came to be exercised in a discretionary manner , based on notions of conscience and justice . |
| 12 | Saturday night dinner at Keele is always special and this year proved to be no exception . |
| 13 | The discovery well a mile away had tested at only 9.7 million cu ft/day ( 275 thousand cu m/day ) , and this result proved to be significantly higher than most later discoveries . |
| 14 | Three of the four previous league clashes between the clubs had ended goalless , and this game appeared to be heading the same way . |
| 15 | Three of the four previous league clashes between the clubs had ended goalless , and this game appeared to be heading the same way . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the firm went bankrupt before the work was completed and another firm had to be called in to finish it , ( Carpave Ltd. 1 June 1933 ) . |
| 17 | The British hardly conceived the French could be defeated and few Americans expected to be embroiled in a global war . |
| 18 | Clearly , MDC 's initial boundaries had been too tightly drawn — a fact recognised at the time — and much work remained to be tackled in surrounding areas . |
| 19 | At the time of her launching Searcher was still far from completed and much work remained to be carried out , including the installation of the Paxman Valenta engines , delivery of which had been delayed . |
| 20 | The Protestant Unionist Party and the early DUP were overwhelmingly Free Presbyterian for the obvious reason that the first activists were recruited through their friendship with , and loyalty to , Ian Paisley , and such qualities tended to be concentrated among Free Presbyterians . |
| 21 | The involvement of land reform would bind the peasants to the communists , and these hopes seemed to be confirmed in a rise of the P L A and militia recruitments when land reform had been re redistributed the land had been redistributed . |
| 22 | The alloy of which they were made age-hardened quickly at normal temperatures , and all rivets had to be chilled before use . |
| 23 | In 1887 special rules decreed that no member of the cricket club was allowed to bowl , and all bowling had to be underarm . |
| 24 | Teams were evenly matched and all games proved to be very close affairs with penalties deciding many of them . |
| 25 | Their presence made it hard for the women to rescue the corpses of the drowned , and many bodies had to be abandoned to them . |
| 26 | New schools and colleges had to be built and more teachers had to be trained and employed . |
| 27 | Torrential rain continued this morning and more families had to be evacuated from the Morfa area of Conwy and in part of Llandudno . |
| 28 | England 's involvement in European warfare after 1689 brought with it a massive expansion of the work of government , as more and more men had to be employed by the executive to meet the demands of war — in the Treasury office , and its dependent bodies the Customs , Excise , Mint and Tax Office , in the Army and Navy , and in the diplomatic service . |
| 29 | Except by special permission candidates shall not bring written , printed or similar material to their examination places , and any candidate found to be in possession of such unauthorised material shall be reported to the Secretary of the University in the first instance . |
| 30 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |