Example sentences of "it [vb past] to be [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will compel B to let C make the legal claim in his name ; in the last resort it might allow C to take proceedings in Equity in his own name against A. Thus it came to be said that ‘ in Equity debts and choses in action are assignable ’ . |
| 2 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 3 | Evidently , at some stage , it came to be appreciated that the eggs and the extra flavourings were unnecessary , that they even distort the fresh flavour of the fruit . |
| 4 | I was frequently called out of my classes to interpret for him , and it began to be assumed that he would never talk at all . |
| 5 | Soon after wooden aircraft went into large scale production it began to be realized that a proportion of aircraft plywood was ungluable . |
| 6 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |
| 7 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 8 | Justice Shepherd emphasised that in placing the advertisement with its claims in the press , it needed to be appreciated that it would be ‘ read by the intelligent and the wary and also by the unsuspecting , the gullible , and the impressionable . ’ |
| 9 | There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court had to do with a grave case involving what is called the right of public meeting . |
| 10 | ‘ There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court was being confronted with a grave case involving what is called a right of public meeting . |
| 11 | None the less , it had to be faced that most , if not all , social science theories , with the possible exception of those of economics , left a great deal to be desired if quantification on the natural science model was to be achieved . |
| 12 | Later it had to be accepted that she would be wheelchair bound for the rest of her life . |
| 13 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 14 | This mode of study was too time-consuming to be suited to the part-time student and it had to be assumed that these benefits would be provided by the employer and the real-life work situation . |
| 15 | In the 1830s , the British geologist Charles Lyell argued that to establish geology as a rigorous science , it had to be assumed that the forces that had sculpted the earth 's surface in the past were identical , both in kind and intensity , to those acting now . |
| 16 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 17 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 18 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
| 19 | The inevitable criticism that it was the former was met firmly with the contention that it was the latter , but it had to be admitted that no one could really be sure , and that to embark on such a venture an act of faith was indubitably required . |
| 20 | Do not let anyone — pilots , the RAF or the CAA — fool themselves that CANP is anything other than a hastily improvised system put together after the collision of a Phantom and a Pawnee in 1974 , when it had to be shown that something was being done . |
| 21 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 22 | It had to be proved that the papers had put into the public domain information which was not already there and which , in the context of the present case , it was in the public interest should not be there . |
| 23 | And , broadly , it continued to be accepted that the key to improvement lay in dedication to competitive enterprise , hard work and self-help , and that those unable to practice these virtues should be helped by their families or by voluntary charity . |