Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [be] [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 2 | Mr Scott 's second suggestion , b ) , that the Garden should create and staff a new post of Computer Manager , was felt to be unnecessary at present , since the Computer Support Officer is the person who will be carrying out most of the tasks outlined by Mr Scott . |
| 3 | Some delegates were said to be angry at Kuwait 's intransigence , including officials from Nigeria who said their country needed oil revenues as much as any other because of difficult economic problems . |
| 4 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |
| 5 | If the student is known to be competent at planning , and it is the details of execution we are to teach , then a double objective would be acceptable . |
| 6 | Such waste was also found to be common at Catholme ( Losco-Bradley 1977 ) . |
| 7 | None of the 14 patients whose tumour was found to be irresectable at laparotomy died in hospital after operation . |
| 8 | The premises of the inference are a large number of statements of the kind , ‘ Raven x was observed to be black at time t ’ , and all these we take to be true . |