Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , far from being the paper-plates-and-pasta evening which Alex had imagined , this dinner party had turned out to be solid English upper-middle-class stuff of the most formal kind . |
| 2 | This particular example demonstrated a common pitfall of this kind of positivist criminology : even if all the possessors of the chromosomal anomaly had turned out to be persistent criminals ( in the event , they did not ) then it would still only have been capable of ‘ explaining ’ a fraction of 1 per cent of recorded crime , simply because the condition was so rare . |
| 3 | Another crock of gold that had turned out to be precious metal all right ; but for somebody else . |
| 4 | She had just had painful surgery to remove an ovarian cyst that had turned out to be benign . |
| 5 | She 'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad . |
| 6 | A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay . |
| 7 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 8 | As well as sending part of her income home , she had hoped eventually to be able to buy a car . |
| 9 | In this instance Wasps skipper Mark Rigby , along with most of the journalists present , felt that by 12.15 p.m. the frost-hit pitch had thawed sufficiently to be playable . |
| 10 | The paper had worked hard at being modern , adding proper features and news analyses . |
| 11 | The designers of the BBC studio had tried hard to be futuristic . |
| 12 | However I think it 's important to stress that right from the early days of the conflict we had determined not to be involved in providing large scale emergency relief . |