Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [adj] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 2 | Shipton would have been saddened to see the old rotting tins and abandoned jerrycans that seemed to be typical of all military movement in this area . |
| 3 | She took no notice , and I began to hate her , not because I was having to apologize — she looked so old and sad that I was genuinely sorry — but because she would n't listen and it was such a-terrible physical struggle for me to talk ; my mouth seemed to be full of some sickly , sticky stuff , like chewing-gum . |
| 4 | Whatever it was , I began to be aware of all the doubts , of all the rational thoughts that I had put away in my pursuit of ‘ complementary ’ medicine . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Somehow , I had to be worthy of this sacrifice ; to make my life count , if only a little . |
| 7 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 8 | With your with regard to erm the tenants and and the contact you had with them , erm would you say that you found that people tended to be supportive of each other ? |
| 9 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |